One cannot step in the same river twice.
It belonged to Murchison, whose body was submerged in the same river some years before.
And yet, as Obama himself said last year, you never step in the same river twice.
YOU can never step in the same river twice; but it can look hauntingly familiar.
Just as one never steps in the same river twice, one never has precisely the same mental state twice.
'How does that old Buddhist saying go?' says Merenstein. 'Something like, "You can't bathe in the same river twice".
Reicher prefers Heraclitus: "No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man".
He noted that in 1996 there was a very good spawn of oysters in the same river, but that as they grew most eventually died from disease.
As time crawls by, the soldiers see to their daily needs, each smelling the food of the other, doing their laundry in the same river, gradually getting to know each other.
Somewhere along the line as well, John Cage and Merce Cunningham's espousal of the pre-Socratic idea that you cannot bathe in the same river twice also seeped into the rebellious modern-dance milieu of the 1960's.
In the words of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man". The rancour and divisiveness of the intervening years would be added.
