# second paragraph is a bit "on the nose" but is too good to leave out
%passage 2
The reason for the story was a mix of many things. There was humanity's
-desire to do forebidden deeds merely because they were forbidden.
+desire to do forbidden deeds merely because they were forbidden.
There was its desire to find new horizons and kill the people who live
beyond them. There were the mysterious scrolls. There was the cucumber.
But mostly there was the knowledge that one day, it would all be over.