Still Dancing Books can be burned easily but great ideas don't quickly fade Paintings can be banned from exhibition but great art still manifests in other ways Music can be blocked from performance but deep harmonies are never displaced Places of worship are easy to demolish but it is harder to destroy human faith Art survives funeral pyres Beauty transcends all flame We are proof of the power of magic - and with or without us The dance of life continues in countless ways

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Jack:	It's sobering to realize how life goes on without humans.
Juanita:	We are certainly not the end of evolution.
Shu:	Is there ever any end? Perhaps our notions of time, space, & causality need re-examination.