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Patrick opens his arms about three feet wide and, with one finger pointing up on each hand, tries to show the scope of this thing. I notice that he doesn__ look at his hands as he does this, but at the wall behind me. It suddenly occurs to me that when people describe size this way, they__e relying on perspective to help them. He__ not saying __t__ this big._ He__ saying __t would look this big from here if it was over there.
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Patrick opens his arms about three feet wide and, with one finger pointing up on each hand, tries to show the scope of this thing. I notice that he doesn__ look at his hands as he does this, but at the wall behind me. It suddenly occurs to me that when people describe size this way, they__e relying on perspective to help them. He__ not saying __t__ this big._ He__ saying __t would look this big from here if it was over there.

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