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Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There__ an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what__ left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.
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Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There__ an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what__ left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

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