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The annulation lecture for Arslanian (pp. 572–573)

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Here things get abstractly furry and I'll just skim through the fact that the only kertwang in the whole process environmentally is that the resultant fusion turns out so greedily efficient that it sucks every last toxin and poison out of the surrounding ecosystem, all inhibitors to organic growth for hundreds of radial clicks in every direction.

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The cycle's overshoot: the fusion is too good — it strips the landscape of every growth-inhibitor for hundreds of "radial clicks," producing the monstrous lushness that then has to be re-poisoned. The loop doesn't just run; it has to be actively fed to keep from running away.

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