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I'm very interested in pain, not in a massacastic or a sadistic way. I'm interested in pain and

suffering for much the same reason that well virtually all of you are. We look at the entertainment

you consume, take out all of the physical and mental pain and suffering, and what do you have left?

It's a source of art and always has been because it speaks to us on a human level.

It doesn't matter how many things are different with human beings through the ages and how much

the culture changes us, how much the technology makes us different from our forebears. We can all

understand pain. I think about it a lot. You know, when I say that I'm interested in the extremes of

the human experience, what does that mean? Sometimes I break it down. I think it just means pain,

mental and physical. You start to wonder about being so interested in that, but James Ball,

when the writer put it wonderfully, I thought when he pointed out that this connects us to each other

and he wrote, quote, you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of

the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most

were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

End quote. But it's such a strange thing, this pain, right? This evolutionary adaptation that's

probably saved more human lives than anything fear and pain together especially.

At the same time, think of the loophole. I think it's a loophole. I wouldn't want to say that it's

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