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gyre
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gyre
gyrus.


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The circles of Nel and Sula's friendship do not spiral outward, to eventually dissolve like the sounds of Big Ben, but instead repeat upward and outward, endlessly throughout time like William Butler Yeats's gyres.
The gyres of history spiral onward, and although we revolve back to a similar point in our circling, we can see how the present moment is not the same as, but superimposed upon an analogous moment in the past.
Such gyres account for 40 percent of Earth's ocean area, says Karl.
 
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