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Fiction

Proof

Jeffrey Wald’s philosophy professor has an epiphany.

The professor was stumped and had been for a long, long time. He sat in his office, his oversized corduroy jacket appearing to wear him rather than the other way around. He was old, and now walked with a slight yet perpetual limp. But his mind was strong – strong as ever!

As he sat and pondered, he intermittently ran his long fingers through his thin hair like a rake through a patchy lawn. Before him, just to the left, sat an enormous stack of papers, coffee-stained, sun-foxed, crispy as parchment.

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