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'What is it?' 'I don't know,' Jonesy said. Tom rags of denim fluttered in the breeze. The sound of it made Kurtz think of gadgets they'd constructed at summer camp a thousand or so years ago, noisemakers that consisted of tin cans and lengths of waxed string. And is near.