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Hello, Constantine's. I'm working on a big, honkin, three-part adventure series, which will begin right here in two weeks.

In the meantime, I thought I'd go back and re-record and reproduce, a favorite episode from a few years ago.

It's one that I think some people might have missed and one that some people seem to

really love, so for both groups, this is a chance to hear it in better quality. And for

supporters of this show on Patreon, a chance to have access to it ad-free. So I hope you'll

enjoy. There are two kinds of things. The first kind is disordered and arbitrary, things that have no sense,

no shape, no sensible boundaries. In material science, these things are called amorphous. Glass is

amorphous. Mount Piedmont is amorphous.

A young woman reading letters, minding her own business, shot dead at her office chair on a run-of-the-mill Monday morning, is amorphous.

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