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"The Enigma We
Answer By Living."

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If I can find it.

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It's somewhere in these.

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"Einstein didn't speak
as a child waiting

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till a sentence formed
and emerged full-blown

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from his head.

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I do the thing, he later wrote,
which nature drives me to do.

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Does a fish know the
water in which he swims?

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This came up in
conversation with a man

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I met by chance, friend of
a friend of a friend, who

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passed through town carrying
three specimen boxes of insects

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he'd collected in
the Grand Canyon--

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one for mosquitoes,
one for honeybees,

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one for butterflies
and skippers.

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Each lined up in row,
pinned and labeled,

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tiny morphologic
differences revealing how

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adaptation happened over time.

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The deeper down he hiked, the
older the rock and the younger

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the strategy for
living in that place.

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And in my dining
room, the universe

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found its way into this man bent
on cataloging each innovation.

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Though he knows it will
all disappear-- the labels,

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the skippers, the canyon.

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We agreed then, the,
old friends and the new,

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that it's wrong to
think people are

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a thing apart from the whole.

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As if we'd sprung from an
idea out in space, rather

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than emerging from the sequenced
larval mess of creation that

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binds us with the
others, all playing

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the endgame of a beautiful
planet that's made

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us want to name
each thing and try

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to tell its story
against the vanishing."

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