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  "description": "C. and I were walking through a museum that might have been Versailles or the Vatican in the year 3000. Baroque galleries. White cubes. Abstract paintings at precise intervals. We agreed, quietly and with some pride, that we were lucky to live in a society that could build such a place.\n\nScreens in the walls adjusted themselves as we passed, and C. went to find a bathroom. I waited near the entrance to a gallery. It was one of those finger-wagging exhibits that tells you how to feel. I went in.\n",
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  "textContent": "C. and I were walking through a museum that might have been Versailles or the Vatican in the year 3000. Baroque galleries. White cubes. Abstract paintings at precise intervals. We agreed, quietly and with some pride, that we were lucky to live in a society that could build such a place.\n\nScreens in the walls adjusted themselves as we passed, and C. went to find a bathroom. I waited near the entrance to a gallery. It was one of those finger-wagging exhibits that tells you how to feel. I went in.\n\nA live satellite feed covered an entire wall, displaying a continent I did not recognize. Along its southern tip, smoke rose from what had once been cities and jungle was reclaiming the rest. The nation above it was pushing downward, pressing these people into the sea. The place was reverting to something before history.\n\nI watched footage of people hunting animals. Hunting each other. A woman in a lab coat stood at a stainless steel table, consulting a page of instructions. She opened a door and the eye of an enormous crocodile filled the doorway. The scientist said there was a specific way you had to cut the eye, and only this would kill the beast. The incision was intricate, almost calligraphic, and the crocodile howled when I made it. When it finally went still. people emerged from the undergrowth to tear strips of flesh from its flanks.",
  "title": "Crocodile Eye",
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