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bq. …Is the world coming to an end? Ask the chubs. As long as fishes spawn, glory and honor to the cold-blooded who despair! As long as ideas are expressed, as long as friction makes bright, as long as vibrating wires make music of harps, we do not want redeemers.
— Henry David Thoreau's Journal: April 15, 1852 

[http://forest.leanside.com/2009/04/15/this-date-from-henry-david-thoreau-s-journal-april-15.html]

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And why not?