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Caitlín R. Kiernan - Personally, I have my doubts that...

Personally, I have my doubts that science can be said to be genuinely progressive, but I'm pretty dammed certain that art is not. Which is not to say that it is not accumulative or accretionary.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

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