begins. It would be a mistake to confuse Peter’s pondering Socratic-ness for uncertainty. His mind, for all its detours and considerations, ultimately meanders toward precision, the kind that calculates down to the ten-thousandth decimal point in ordinary conversation. He is the kind of man who might make a multimillion dollar bet without hesitation. It’s only if you ask him a question about an arcane point in Russian literature that you get the long pause of consideration. He wouldn’t want to just spout off. But if he thinks he has some deep idea about human nature, about the market, he’ll go
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