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I'm not going to read you
all of the Hubble pieces,

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but they're over
there if you want

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to investigate them further.

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So this is another one
called Pillars of Creation.

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This is the Eagle Nebula.

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And in the Eagle Nebula there
are these great plumes of gas

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that look like Monument
Valley, if you've ever visited,

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so we recognize things
of our own experience

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when we look at these
deep space images that

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have no intent of
mirroring the things

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that we mirror upon them.

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Pillars of Creation.

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The patterns of becoming
encoded in interstellar gas--

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our echo of destruction,
time-lapse and aftermath.

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Pillars of star birth fused to
slow hand and spire of Monument

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Valley--

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those cleaved, precarious
strata writing--

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rising from the dust
of siltstone oxidized.

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The sunset streaked
furious beyond.

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Or, these pillars are the
silver nitrate preservation,

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charred vestige
of conflagration:

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the jagged cinders
of Chicago's stone

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and construct when chaos
consumed all that would feed

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and flash the fire's dervish.

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Understanding is rote
superimposition--

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images stacked like books in
the mess, each edge of embrace,

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each mistake.

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