Mainly because only one person can talk at a time, necessitating such old-movie behaviors as having to say "over" at the beginning and end of a sentence.

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It took almost two years for the judge who originally sentenced Milken to ten years to reduce that sentence by eight years, likely indicating that even she was beginning to recognize something rotten about the prosecution.

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Instead, from his bizarre point of departure, Kafka constructs a credible, logical chain of events, beginning with the detailed, realistic description of the insect after the first astonishing sentence.

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