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By noon, the town was transformed. Old Mrs. Pettle, who’d read about her “philosophical fern,” sat talking to it about Kant. The plant seemed to lean toward her, listening. The high school principal, after reading the poem-forecast, cancelled afternoon classes for “emotional barometric processing.” Students built leaf boats in the gutters. In the early 2000s, the Malaysian government, led