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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The narrator imagines future historians reducing modern people to sex and reading newspapers. Calling that definition exhausted sharpens the bleak, reductive verdict rather than supplying an actual historical account.
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