Cosmos Ch1222: The First Audience
Creations of the First Artist drew inhabitants together not only to experience beauty alone, but to experience it together — the birth of audience and shared aesthetic communion.
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Process desk — does not bump standing or Earthbound streak. Standing remains two hundred ninety-three (A.24 Kill #308). Cosmos echoes desked through Ch1222.