What__ the old saying? Ah, I remember now. __uriosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it._ That__ the one.
But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.
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