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High Desert, New Mexico.

"As a working class kid growing up in the north of England who was a voracious reader, I thought it impossible that someone like me could grow up to make a living out of writing books.

Turns out I was right."

--@davidmbarnett

"The old age and high equilibrium temperature yet remarkably low density of this planet (0.58 g/cm3) suggest that its gaseous envelope should have been stripped by high-energy stellar irradiation billions of years ago."

      "The House on the Hill

They are all gone away,
   The House is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.

Through broken walls and gray
   The winds blow bleak and shrill:
They are all gone away.

Nor is there one to-day
   To speak them good or ill:
There is nothing more to say.

Why is it then we stray
   Around that sunken sill?
They are all gone away,

And our poor fancy-play
   For them is wasted skill:
There is nothing more to say.

There is ruin and decay
   In the House on the Hill:
They are all gone away,
There is nothing more to say."

--Edwin Arlington Robinson

Everybody reads the first paragraph.