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I’ll endure traveling the adjacent ii weeks. First to Cambridge to celebrate which was inwards January), too then inwards Trieste for a conference on “Probing the spacetime fabric: from concepts to phenomenology.”  Rant coming upwards later on today, only after that delight stimulate for a tedious time.

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