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The Moving and the Still - by Dean W. Ball

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Reflections on Delhi

Since I was young, I have enjoyed imagining what it must be like to walk around the inside of a cell from the perspective of something so small that it was like a human walking the streets of Manhattan. When I was younger, simpler, and more naïve, I imagined it like my textbooks told me it would be: orderly, logical, Mozartian. I supposed that a cellular pedestrian could look up at stonelike structures, enjoy the rhythm of cars stopping at red lights and gliding through green. As I came to understand the world as it really is, it gradually dawned on me that the cell is nothing like this.…

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