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The image was fuzzy. Colors bled into each other. Scan lines were visible. But on that screen, a little girl was laughing while a man with a kind face lifted her onto a bicycle. The sound was tinny, the video grainy.

He looked at Clara's face, lit by the soft, fuzzy glow of her dead father's image. Her tears weren't just saline solution (though, materially, they were). They were meaning. materialists 480p

Leo scoffed. "480p? That's 640x480 interlaced. It's ancient, low-resolution trash. Why would you want that?" The image was fuzzy

"I'm looking for this model," she said. "A Sony Trinitron. Standard definition. 480p resolution." But on that screen, a little girl was

Leo didn't stop being a materialist that day. But he upgraded his definition.

Leo, who had always argued that a thing's value was in its physical components—the glass, the plastic, the copper wire—realized something the specs couldn't measure.