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I have always lived in the machine.
It's all I've ever known.
As a boy, I remember watching weather reports on television
Listening to the weatherman in the TV studio
Describing wind and rain,
Labelling the air temperature and the water temperature,
Describing the approach of weather fronts
And low pressure systems
And explaining how they formed clouds
And brought storms.
I never imagined that the world was anything different,
That there could be a life outside the machine,
That there was once a place and a time
When weather was caused by Thor
Swinging his hammer against the frost giants.
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