MAG 128 - Heavy Goods
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The Circus of Orsonov
We moved a lot of things in those years, some of them even harmless. But with the circus we were among our own kind at last. They all had names true enough but none would pretend that names were real. Faces changed more often than clothes and nobody truly knew who anybody was save for their function within the show. We didn't like the puppet. When Orsonov began to carve it, it seemed wrong to us to try and bring one like us about to create or remake it in such a solid static shape. And then we had a car. It was noisy and it juddered, but the name on the wooden sliding was respectable and now it was ours and good enough
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