To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition _ irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.
But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don__ know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don__ __loom_ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,_ adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.
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But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don__ know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don__ __loom_ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,_ adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.
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