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Tono-Bungay Book 4 Chapter 3 - Parts 1-4
In which the narrator reflects on the futile bustle of modern England through the vivid experience of piloting a new destroyer down the Thames and out to sea, perceiving the nation's grandeur and decay like the fading colours of autumn leaves. As the river and city recede behind him, he discerns in the relentless machinery of progress an austere and enduring reality—an elusive essence of life that transcends nations and epochs.
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