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These objects stand in for any number of small, relatively insignificant losses the audience can withstand.

The Hour Badly Spent

Although offered as an example of a small loss, this also serves as a reminder that because of the nature of time, loss is inevitable.

Places and Names

These generalizations are offered as examples of more significant--and personal--losses the audience can withstand.

The Speaker's Mother's Watch

This concrete object is offered as an example of a significant and personal loss to the speaker.

Cities, Rivers, and a Continent

These unnamed places are part of an escalating series of examples of the speaker's own losses.

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