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He was a professor of philosophy, and thinking was his life — thinking and reading and writing and teaching.
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
