I find myself thinking about life in Austin. The music and the bars, the highways and the traffic, the new buildings downtown and the boats on the lake—all the buzz of civilization, all the life, all the heat. I imagine the molecules in the city all vibrating faster, and those molecules bumping into other molecules, until finally the dancing molecules vibrate all the way down to Antarctica, a place so remote that I am one of the first humans ever to sail these waters. I know that isn’t how it works, but I also know it sorta is. The heat we generate in modern life cannot be contained. It is not
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