for sights like this were not exceptional; on the contrary, hardly a day passed without the sky being filled with fantastic cloud formations, each and every one illuminated in unique never-to-be-repeated ways, and since what you see every day is what you never see, we lived our lives under the constantly changing sky without sparing it a glance or a thought. And why indeed should we? If the various formations had had some meaning, if, for example, there had been concealed signs and messages for us which it was important we decode correctly, unceasing attention to what was happening would have
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