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The death of curiosity.

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Then came the
death of curiosity.

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It was sudden and it was quick.

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Many did not see it coming.

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It woke up one morning and
couldn't move its face away

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from itself.

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Narcissists would
have gilded its frame.

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An actor would have
leaned in for a lesson.

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A mime would have surrendered.

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Painters and
sculptors would have

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gathered their instruments.

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Children would have
tried to make it laugh.

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But curiosity was
alone in its death,

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as no one knew that it had died.

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Politicians graced
it in speeches.

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Scientists alluded to it
in private conversations.

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Neighbors greeted it on Sundays.

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Crowds assumed it
was in their laps.

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All the while, curiosity
was at capacity.

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It had what it had had,
and it would have no more.

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Then came the death
of the country.

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It was not sudden,
and it was not quick.

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Few did not see it coming.

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It woke up one morning
and unhinged itself.

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It did not leave a piece
of land or a body of water.

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It did not leave a flag.

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It left no memory of soaring
spacecraft or landing men.

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There were no museums
to document its descent.

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There were no old maps to study.

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Even the wars that
never really died

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had no more blood to go around.

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Human and beast alike
hovered in the air,

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yet there was nothing
birdlike about them.

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They were not leaves
ushered by the wind

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into the great hallways of time.

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They were still human,
and they were still

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beasts that simply had
no ground to stand on.

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The feet of trees wiggled
their ankles in the air.

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Buildings that
stood up to the sky

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sat unmoored from
their foundations.

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Then came the death
of surrealism.

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And it was slow,
and it was painful,

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and no one saw it coming.

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If it woke up one morning,
not a soul could say,

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its oxygen was reality in
its history of ailments.

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The supply of raw
materials to manipulate

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had exhausted itself.

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The shape of things had
simply depleted the inventory

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of possible contortions.

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Imagined forms were confined
to the unconscious universe,

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floating in the horizon
with animals and plants.

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Painters and sculptors
lost all perspective.

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No politician could claim
chaos as a constituent.

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No chemist could
conduct an experiment.

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The ink of philosophers
had no medium to wander.

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The dissolution of gestures
gave actors nothing to mime.

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Narcissists could not reflect
upon their reflections.

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Children could not
fix their laughter.

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The world could not
place its fears.

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