You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope you are doing very well. I'm just going to jump

right in to our fourth story for the month of June, issue 165.

The piece is titled Optimizing the Path to Enlightenment is by Priya Shand.

Priya Shand is a California transplant living in the Midwest.

Her work is inspired by a background in biology,

and has previously appeared in magazines including

Analog, SF, and Nature Futures. You can find her at her website, Priusshand writes, that

WordPress.com.

And if you go back to April 2019,

you can find Social Darwinism.

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So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, let the day fade away and let me tell you a story.

To honor the fruit they had spilled, meals were taken in silence. The dining hall was a sea of undied linen and cropped hair, enclosed in soaring concrete walls.

Slits in the tiled roof flooded the low tables with light, so the diners did not crowd each other and in doing so committed violence.

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