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Intrepid Maverick Philosopher Returns

To aerate, babble and procrastinate decluttering man cave rubbish welcoming this temperate (Billy me) idle March thirtieth tooth house sand nineteen eventually to accomplish sorting thru lifetime worth miscellaneous papered material former rainforest, I banish to the shredder repurposing once upon a time stately majestic humongous dignified cub billed bearish, yet stern silent taskmasters razed forest mongers left blemish - fueling the roaring engines of western civilization paper products service material world feeding bookish appetite, sans (ironic knotty twist) printed hot off the press bulletins, bestsellers inform boyish wordsmith, how vast treeless tracts hasten global abomination, chopping degradation, lamentation... brownish blotches encompass inert naked, torchered, and zapped originally pristine realms overrun by sawyers brutish Paul Bunyanesque (sporting as good) fellas carved cleared, and cropped enormous swaths back when bullish intruders displaced indigenous peoples crowing manifest destiny as mantra to appease expansionist predilection frenzied cultish zero sum game to annex unbroken wilderness promulgating feverish gold rush to demolish wantonly scorching Earth, whereby present day burgeoning population irrevocably establish ruination ushering ominous augury permeating mine mortal mutterings.

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