To me, context is about pattern recognition.

It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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Sell and Megan go away.

That worked out.

Yeah, I mean, once again, what a bunch of baloney.

Yeah, those things need like 10,000 more years

to get statistical significance, I think.

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