“If it isn’t John Locke,” I said. “James.” I knew I was dead asleep and dreaming, but I didn’t know whether John Locke knew that. “I’ve been thinking about you,” I said. “I’ve been pondering hypocrisy.” “Don’t start up with that now,” he said. “It was a job. After I wrote the constitution for Barbados, the Carolinians asked me to write them one, too, and I wrote it.” “What you’re saying is that if someone pays you enough, it’s okay to abandon what you have claimed to understand as moral and right.” “When you put it that way,” he said. “When I put it that way what?” “They wanted a constitution
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