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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
By the mosquitos. Right, forgot about your air force.
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Exactly.
Impassable mountains; thick humid forests filled with insects; tens of thousands of kilometers littered with bogs, rivers, and lakes; harsh winters; unforgiving summers; wide open expanses; the bitter north; wolverines....and we vacation in it.
Do you really want to play this game?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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