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PIGEONS
AREN’T REAL
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COLUMBA / TRANSMISSION 12 / 1:07
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Count again. The pigeon is no longer the only observer.
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1:07 / SOUND ON
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FIVE DIFFERENT THINGS
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WHO BUYS WHAT?
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COUNT AGAIN.
KEEP THE SOURCE ATTACHED / FILE 12
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We began with a pigeon
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the city could depreciate but
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would not admit to owning.
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We end with an absence
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somebody could buy.
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The body,
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the account,
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the scene,
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the time and the contract.
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Keep those five things separate
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and the system's clean story
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becomes much harder to maintain.
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COLUMBA makes an observer.
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Public money makes it ordinary.
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PALANTIR turns the observation
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into an answer.
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The Conservatory buys control
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over who receives that answer.
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WREN kept the contradictions the
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interface left out.
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The archive does not answer
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every mystery.
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It resolves the first
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discrepancy without inventing
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the missing evidence.
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The network's last public report
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still says seventeen.
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For the first time,
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the pigeon is not the
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only thing being observed.
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Count again.
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