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But why is it – and this only seems to apply to comedy – that some people so deeply resent those that can write jokes, can invent new perceptions of the world that actually make people laugh? Resent them so much that they have to denigrate the entire profession, just so they can feel better about themselves? Do they really think they’re less of a person if they can’t make up a joke, or be funny in the moment? Why is it so crucial to them? Is it because all of us, at some point of darkness or confusion or existential despair, were amazed at how absurd a thing as a simple joke suddenly lit the way, or warmed the cold, or made the sheer, horrific insanity that sometimes comes with being alive suddenly, completely, miraculously manageable?

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The song “Everything That Rises Must Converge” refers to the short story of that name by Flannery O’Connor. The song “Nemesis” is apparently about the hypothetical star orbiting the Sun[citation needed], although the video makes it clear that the comic-book anti-hero Nemesis the Warlock was also on the band’s mind.

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The word parthenogenesis comes from the Greek παρθένος, parthenos, meaning “virgin” and γένεσις, genesis, meaning “birth”.[1] The term is sometimes used inaccurately to describe reproduction modes in hermaphroditic species that can reproduce by themselves because they contain reproductive organs of both sexes in a single individual’s body.