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We also have what are called monstrosities,
a wide door for the entry of doubt
the manufactory of species being these beautiful co-adaptations and the accumulation of slight. The most melodious or beautiful males, utterly ignorant though we be of the agency of insects—I will not here enlarge a web of complex relations—what a struggle between trees, all striving to increase the dependency of one being on another, as the structure of every organic being is related and the mutual relations of all beings.
When murder is mass, we mark it in the calendar.
Neither of us seemed able to warm up that winter.

Text by Jordan Scott. Prompt: 1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.

Text by Christof Migone. Prompts: texts by Jordan and Kathryn plus the prompts they chose.

Text by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Prompt: 1771 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.

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