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Food for Thought

Dracula Meets Aristotle (But not vice versa)

Tim Madigan reports on an unverifiable encounter.

“If ever there was in the world a warranted and proven history, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking. Official reports, testimonials of persons of standing, of surgeons, clergymen, judges: the judicial evidence is all embracing. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The great philosopher Aristotle stands at center stage, deep in thought. Dracula, in full regalia, enters stage left.

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