Eventually, engineers will work entirely in the abstract world of forms emerging only for the unpleasant, if necessary, duty of turning them into things tangible enough for people to buy.

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Our duty in this case is as unpleasant as it was unsought.

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When anything unpleasant happens within the family thereafter, the blame is heaped on the hapless dead relation - for sleeping on duty.

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