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" Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it. "
Timothy Morton
Inevitably
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" When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.' "
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