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““Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster,””

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“I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo. The Cookie Monster. Whatever, Rashid”

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“Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches.”

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