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# 6
Serialism
A simple extrapolation -- Cyrano and Boulez
You marvel that this matter, shuffled pell-mell at the whim of chance could have made a man a man, seeing that so much was needed for the construction of his being. But you must realise that a hundred million times this matter, on the way to human shape has been stopped to form [i]
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Cyrano, Voyage dans la lune, 1661, Garnier-Flammarion edition,
pp. 98–9.
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