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And Slitscan would walk away, he knew; they'd drop the sequence on Alison's
actor, if they felt they had to, and the whole thing would settle to the sea
floor, silting over almost instantly with the world's steady accretion of data.


And Alison Shires' life, as he'd known it in all that terrible, banal intimacy,
would lie there forever, forgotten and finally unknowable.

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Originally posted by Rob W.:
On the other hand, you'd think a detailed record of what artists and performers were doing in the previous decade would allow you to avoid repeating the same tropes and styles. That seems to happen in some areas of the arts. Doesn't happen in politics, of course. Doesn't seem to happen as much as it should in music - I wonder why.