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The fact that (with a few exceptions that ran 2 episodes), each story was limited to less than 30 minutes (the commercial breaks which accounted for the "less than" were surrounded by fade-outs of some new terror arising - which, even the youngest viewer realized after a few breaks, would be a false alarm when it resumed) rushed the plots of stories I laughed and fascinated over in book form, giving no time to absorb the scares, other than the phony ones resolved in 60 seconds while the camera dimmed and returned.

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So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners that we are.

So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.

It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.

And so actually it allows for an intense emotional exchange, but is serves to absorb the specificity of the words that are delivered.

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