Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.
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