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Any questions so far?

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is like being in a
War of the Worlds movie.

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"Rabbit, I Love You."

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"The capacity to
feel is good to have.

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You know you are alive
when you feel the ravine's

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minuet of sadness, the octopus'
gladness of not being in the--

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of being in the sea
and not a jelly jar.

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Having feelings allows
us to do nothing

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but still feel
something is being done.

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Many thinkers know the
feeling of feeling.

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But few had glimpsed the feeling
of the feeling of the feeling.

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The rabbit does not move,
waiting for the yard

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to turn rabbit-colored and,
thus, make it feel invisible.

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Huh?

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You can argue for
hours about a rabbit

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if the feeling is there,
which is often not

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about the rabbit but the
person you argue with.

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Her hair tied to a river.

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Her unstable tongue.

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Such heat in the world,
you and the rabbit share.

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And cold, demures the glacier.

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You lock your keys in the car.

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And there's a feeling.

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Read Nick Carraway's last words.

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And, yep, a feeling.

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There are no ordinary feelings.

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Just as there are no
ordinary spring days

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or kicked over cans of paint.

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Are feelings ever succinct?

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The haiku is quick.

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But its ripples
to the horizon go.

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Feeling, you think you
have it under control.

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Then whamo, a new blast hole
in the middle of the couch

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where your TV watching some
excessively handsome people

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try to diffuse an atomic bomb.

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And now your throat is shaking.

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Tears.

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Even for the toddler,
feeling is 1,000 years old,

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just as the smile of Mona
Lisa is new every 15 minutes.

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You've got to be kidding.

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Matter, antimatter, there's
still a lot unaccounted for.

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Feeling, you'll never stop
bushwhacking me unsyntactically

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like crows from a tree flying.

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Even in sleep, dreamily,
I leap from the top stair

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to grab the arrow about to
pierce my father's chest.

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I saved him, I
think, for a moment.

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And then the feeling,
no, that isn't so."

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