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A Figure Like That<br />

ways and SkyRail), water facilities and many,<br />

many other essential infrastructural matters.<br />

However, Calvin wasn’t watching the weather<br />

patterns on his screen for financial reasons. He<br />

was analysing the weather patterns because he<br />

knew something big was about to happen; he<br />

wasn’t he sure what this might be, but if<br />

anything was going to identify to him what this<br />

might be, it was very likely to be the weather.<br />

He wasn’t particularly certain where exactly<br />

this might be but he could look at broad<br />

general topics like temperatures or chemical<br />

atmospheric densities that might suggest<br />

something even though he knew that these<br />

might not be specific enough for the role but he<br />

only had the tools that were available to him.<br />

Only two hundred or even a hundred years ago<br />

people would have claimed that such events<br />

were due to a deities’ propensity to cause<br />

havoc owing to a specific type of behaviour by<br />

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