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5. How do the lines "Invent us as we were / before our bodies
glittered/and we stopped bleeding" (Lines 24-26), support
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Which quotation from the passage best supports the themethat humans have a natural desire to learn about theworld? "they were men. i remember the dead man's face.""at least, we make a beginning."and the magic tools are broken—but we can look atthem and wonder."but they were men who built the city, not gods ordemons.