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    “Beauty for some provides escape,
    Who gain a happiness in eyeing
    The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
    Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

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    the whole city in all its corruption,
    all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away,
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