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August 07, 2005

Andy: The Coming Silence

No one trusted the government when they told us what was happening. No one believed the scientists, bespectacled bores on every channel with a graph of this, a chart of that, all of them pointing to the same outcome. No one took notice when they hung that clock in Times Square, ticking down to zero, because those things are just approximations.

Usually.

But on October 8, walking through Times Square, I looked up and saw the countdown make the slow roll from 1 to zero.

"Shit," I said.

And that was the last word ever spoken aloud. Shit. Eloquent, eh?

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