And Quiet Flows the Don was a novel by the Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov. Remember it. You’re likely one of the few. But rivers have been
great sources of inspiration both to artists and plain folks. Moses was floated
down the Nile and the rest is history. In a similar life saving intervention
Romulus and Remus were sent down the Tiber and ended up founding Rome. The
River Liffey running through Dublin was a source of inspiration to Joyce and "riverrun" is the first word(s) of Finnegan's Wake. The
Thames inspired Eliot’s Wasteland (“Sweet Thames, run softly, til I end my song"). The Vlatava river, the
longest in the Czech Republic, would eventually carry Vaclav Havel's coffin. The
Danube is so ubiquitous a source of inspiration that one hesitates, for fear of
sounding obvious, to make the citations. We have the temperamental Arno, whose
waters flow down from the gentle hills which surround Florence and there’s
the Hudson, without which there'd be no Hudson River Valley or Hudson River
School of painting. A New Curve in the Ganges: Mohatma Gandhi’s Study of Hinduism was a book by Arvi Scharma and finally let’s not forget the Mississippi without which we probably never would have
heard of a fellow named Mark Twain.
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