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PROVIDENCE

                                         (That's Ed Brenner,
                                         of course, aka     
Ed talks about a concept he              The TOADKEEPER.)   
calls "Providence", which is             
the best of all achievable               
realities, as opposed to                                    
Utopia which literally means        Another word for               
"no where".                         Providence might           
                                    be Omelas.            Or "An Omelas"?
                                                          Suggesting that 
                                                          there are many 
    "He had fled from Salem to Providence -               local maxima? 
    that universal haven of the odd, the                  Or perhaps just 
    free, and the dissenting ..."                         that there are 
        -- H. P. Lovecraft,                               many visions. 
          "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" 



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