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An awesome anecdote. It makes me want to write a series of pure memories, no commentary, just like 5-10 assorted memories from the past, as vivid and yet simple as I can make them. I will try to do that.

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Thank you, Elizabeth. While part of me was concerned that the end of this poem was too spiritually monarchist, in the end I decided to tell myself that in the context of time it was actually productive to appropriate and endorse the mythos of royalty.

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What do we call the second that comes just before something we thought was going to happen didn't?

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Wittenberger seconds, in honor of the person who discovered them.

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I’m honored, Mark!

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👑

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