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>Listen to that gnawing coming from the wall. That's here. That's home. That's us. Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every humanbeing who ever was, lived out their lives to that tune. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived listening to that sound. An implacable metronome, like a heart beat. The rhythm that life dances to.