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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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