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an ultrathin layer of cooled crust which he confidently calls "terra
firma". Reality, however, frequently rattles this false sense of security.
Restless, shifting tectonic plates buckle and grind against one another
lifting the surface of our planet into majestic mountain ranges and
plunging it into seemingly bottomless oceanic trenches with cold indifference
to our presence here.
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