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In this moment of global crisis a nondescript brown envelope was posted to Senator Carson’s office. The Senator’s young secretary failing to locate the letter knife opened the said envelope – fatally by hand - onto a blank page. Pondering aloud the meaning of this surreal tease, the Senator’s young secretary did not recall Mallarme, but rather her own pretty perplexity in the gilt mirror over the Senator’s desk; which the Senator – out of the habits of a lifetime could neither confirm nor deny.