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No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. there was nothing to see at all.
-Norton Juster
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Norton Juster
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. there was nothing to see at all.
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