https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/streams/the-shape/5/this-is-your-shape-of-the-united-states.md
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.