By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes _ as it is already to a large extent _ no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a __ree-range_ warren but a __attery_ one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985
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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes _ as it is already to a large extent _ no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a __ree-range_ warren but a __attery_ one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.
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