Curtis: I find meaning from that story in the ways that you just described as well. It also makes me think that it also helps make sense of the world, because it reminds me of how far back our cultural and ideological divisions go. Even this far back, people were putting each other in these sort of straight jackets and that prevented from basic sort of human care. And it's striking that we're still living with that in even more intense ways.

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