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The human race is a letdown, Ernest _ a bad, bad letdown. And I__ disgusted with it. It thinks it__ progressed, but it hasn__. It thinks it__ risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn__. It__ wallowing in it. It__ still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We__e invented a few things that make noises, but we haven__ invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.
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The human race is a letdown, Ernest _ a bad, bad letdown. And I__ disgusted with it. It thinks it__ progressed, but it hasn__. It thinks it__ risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn__. It__ wallowing in it. It__ still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We__e invented a few things that make noises, but we haven__ invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.

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