People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes …

David Mitchell
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. ✨ David Mitchell (2008). Cloud Atlas: A Novel, p.470, Random House
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. ✨ David Mitchell (2008). Cloud Atlas: A Novel, p.470, Random House

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