Of course no one ever claimed that living in
interesting times would be pleasant. That after all
is the entire point of the clever curse a threat
wrapped neatly in a polite form of speech.
Politeness and malice make interesting bedfellows
and there are entire cultures built around the
concept of smiling as you thrust a verbal dagger
deep. Although not exactly viewed as a gift
disguised as a malady the world is now steeped
deep in an unleashed pathogen that happened to
emerge from disputed sources within the culture
that birthed the diplomacy of fluff-coated threats.
Entirely of course coincidental. Yet if doubts have
surfaced and a grieving global community expresses
its desire to delve deep into the hooded details of
emergence and worldwide infection we are doomed
to continue living in interesting times since the
venerable source has no intention whatever of casting
illuminating light and reason for scientific display
as a humbly reassuring gesture of mea culpa.
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