| VII Evolution. Traces of DNA from the most remote corners of the earth walk the stones of Paris. Evidence of all religion, philosophy, style, form and thing resides in the thoughts or dreams or speech, if not the streets, of the city. Inhabit, breed, mutate. |
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| VIII What a sweaty, bloody business, this being human on earth. Paris stones, vessel rich with the juices. Filleting a fish, the merchant nicks a finger and spills a drop of blood. A whole human is emptied of liters at the blade in 1793. The Seine ran pink through villages kilometers downstream. |
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