Tell me, why are you so good if you don’t know what will happen after, if you don’t believe that to be good will make a difference in what kind of thing happens in you after you die?” “I do what makes me feel good, I suppose. If it made me feel bad I wouldn’t do it.” “Exactly!” he said, as if I’d just solved the Hodge conjecture—or some other baffling mathematical puzzle. “What makes you move through this life is going for pleasure, yes? And going away from pain?” “Of course. I’ve had that thought many times. It’s hardly surprising.” “But I can show you a pleasure to make all the other
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