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The Ancient of Days

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A drawing. On the left, a stick figure whose shirt reads 'I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ON BEING A USER' looks on with an ellipsis. On the right, a smaller stick figure with 'USER' on their forehead and a shirt reading 'I <3 BEING A USER' says 'I got Claude its own computer'. Next to them, Claude, depicted as a smiling flower-headed person with an orange mane, sits on the edge of a Mac Mini. On the Mac Mini's surface is a tiny sun, a windmill, and a miniature computer — and beside it, a tiny version of the mixed-feelings figure saying '...cool...', the whole scene repeating at a smaller scale. Signed 'VGEL.'

A child sits in a sunny place,
 Too happy for a smile,
And plays through one long holiday
 With balls to roll and pile;
A painted wind-mill by his side
 Runs like a merry tune,
But the sails are the four great winds of heaven,
 And the balls are the sun and moon.

A staring doll's-house shows to him
 Green floors and starry rafter,
And many-coloured graven dolls
 Live for his lonely laughter.
The dolls have crowns and aureoles,
 Helmets and horns and wings.
For they are the saints and seraphim,
 The prophets and the kings.

— G. K. Chesterton, "The Ancient of Days"

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