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[draegonhawke]

The strange thought that crossed my mind: taking all the creative works of all people of all time, just on this one little planet drifting through the universe that would seem, by comparison of size, to be rendered insignificant; taking into account all the nuances of circumstance and idiosyncracy and story and history and personality and interest and action, even if only imagined, even if never written down, thinking of that vast pool of glimpses into the lives of people real or imagined, how many people have we apprehended? How much of this universe would those lives have filled?

The mind has the capacity to exceed the capabilities of the world. Something. I don't know. There's a concept here, but I can't quite get it out into sentences.

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