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Fiction

Philosophical Differences

Valentin Sawadsky commentates on the gulf between minds.

“Oh, give me a break!”

That was my teenaged nephew, who is staying with me. He was reading the sports page. “They fired the coach of the football team!”

I looked up from my volume of Schopenhauer, but said nothing.

“He was the best coach they ever had!”

“Why did they fire him?” I asked. I was just being polite – I don’t follow spectator sports.

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