There is, inevitably, something tenuous and unsatisfactory in the way the logical demonstration works, sifting all humankind’s sufferings and regrets, attachments, sadness, and weaknesses through the loose net of truth and falsity to obtain a handful of premises like a handful of gold dust. Boldly casting fallacies aside and proceeding along the narrow balance beam one step at a time, we see silence rippling like a black body of water past the net of clear, coherent questions we’ve asked and answered ourselves. And still we go on asking and answering—even as our eyes remain immersed in the
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