There is I believe now a force in stories words in motion that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesnt. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World
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Yet human intelligence has another force too the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality to a great degree it is our mortality.
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