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The rising ubiquity of the lab, our alchemical noodling in povera forms, roleplay to deal with trauma of not having our own, expressions of our desire for productivity and vitality of scientist's real results, like children who feign adult, play house, to feel like they have one, the human impulse to invent magic, gods, to fill the coldness of their absence, to feel the glow of control, even in invented worlds, until the adults come in and strip the sheets off our nakedness.