#368: Amanda Palmer on Creativity, Pain, and Art

Optimal minimal. At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Can I ask you a personal question? No, it's similar. A cybernetic organism, living tissue over metal and the scale. No

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