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Symbiain Intelligence presents.

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The Wind That Rushes West.

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From Moneydie, by Iain Davie.

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The wind from the east rushes
west.

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One morning early Medici collected
Donna from the Villa di

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Careggi, and they rode into town.

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Dark cypresses and hedges of
fragrant laurel lined their path,

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yielding to spectacular views of
the river from time to time,

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flashing as if quicksilver in the
sun, as they descended through

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the terraces and vines north of
the city.

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There was a table set for her
beside Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of

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Paradise, outside the Baptistery.

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Gleaming in gold leaf was the
composition of figures and

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architecture, and that day Medici
again talked, and Donna

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listened, taking notes, as local
passers-by looked on somewhat

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perplexed.

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That a woman, young, might sit by
a wooden trestle in front of

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golden gates writing letters into
models with her quills.

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That they might rise as birds to
heaven, unlike swords and

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shaking spears, which in the hands
of men had become the cause of

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such fearful misery and death.

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Passers-by at times transformed
from fleeting love of beauty to

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scientists of purpose, seeing
Donna in the act of wrestling an

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infinite variety of elements in
the most beautiful of passages.

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That the wrinkles of time had cast
an apostrophe before the

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perfect beauty of her face.

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In amplification transforming the
self-selecting audience from

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passer-by to the richer harmony of
onlooker with curious eyes.

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That as soon as ever opened, as if
beholding all the stars of our

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hemisphere.

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It was there!

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Right then!

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The wind that rushes west.

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In that face seeing the sun from
the instance it appears

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proceeding, as the mind passes in
an instance compassing east and

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west.

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Critical mass tensioned by
temptation.

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Such was the patient exposition,
the origin and whole structure

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of the anatomy of thinking man, in
the blinking of a curious

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passing eye.

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And so the valid thoughts of the
intelligent and unbiased were

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promoted in status to bystander,
and those canny fair-minded

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spectators, were never shouted
down as we see in politics as

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counterproductive outsiders, and
if they persisted, never

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transmuted to untouchables for the
crime of valid observation.

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Donna had taken an interest in the
instruments of percussion and

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their orchestration related to
winds from the old manuscripts

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Medici had given her access to at
the Villa di Careggi.

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One set of documents was the
composition of Pico della
Mirandola,

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the first gentile scholar to
master the ancient mystical
theology

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of Kabbalah.

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Another set was the collection of
notebooks and papers from the

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artist Leonardo another former
student.

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Her interest especially vesting in
the winds from Jupiter.

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As the cause of the wind appeared
to be time, and its effects

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were movements.

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Symbiain Intelligence.

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Clearer evidence.

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Better questions.

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Human judgement.