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A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling - World Cultural Heritage Library Author: Isn't it almost time that our planet took some interest in the proceedings of the Aerial Board of Control? One knows that easy communications nowadays, and lack of privary in the past, have killed all curiosity among mankind, but as the Board's Official Reporter I am bound to tell my tale. At 9:30 A. M., August 26, A.D. ... more » Every Northern Illinois freight and passenger tower was, he reported, out of action, all District main, local, and guiding lights had been extinguished; all General Communications were dumb, and through traffic had been diverted. No reason had been given, but he gathered unofficially from the Mayor of Chicago that the District complained of 'crowd-making and invasion of privacy.' As a matter of fact, it is of no importance whether Northern Illinois stay in or out of planetary circuit; as a matter of policy, any complaint of invasion of privacy needs immediate investigation, lest worse follow.
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