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Volume 5, Issue 86: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
"All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed."
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 85: Zeitoun
"If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.”
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 84: You Shall Know Our Velocity!
"We are not vessels. We are missiles."
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 83: The Monk of Mokha
"They brought you here so you could have choices. And you're blowing it."
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Will Leitch
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July 2025

Volume 5, Issue 82: The Circle
"Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know ... they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might…
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 81: A Hologram for the King
"The greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a…
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Volume 5, Issue 80: How We Are Hungry
"Sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last."
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 79: What Is The What
"I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency."
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Will Leitch
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June 2025

Volume 5, Issue 78: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
"Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men?"
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 77: Sacrament
"We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun."
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 76: No Kings.
I'm going out. You should too.
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Will Leitch
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Volume 5, Issue 75: The Captain and the Glory
"He lied about the time of day while standing under a clock."
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Will Leitch
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