This is an excerpt of a news article published on fake-news-articles-so-superfake.com on the 8th of October, 2021. For many years the consensus of historical scholarship assumed that the great philosophical traditions of east and west developed for the most part independently, with minimal or no contact with one another. This alleged independence though plausible, seemed…
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A Walking Paradox
“I’ve always been told that… well nothing, nobody told me nothing. I got here to where I am, and nobody told me nothing!” I grumbled; laid back my back again, gazed at Virgil’s stupid understanding face, and then I realized – I was pissed. I’ve noticed that my chair though straight, was bent against me…
A True and Deep Story About a Stick and an Ass
Canyon Colca, Peru, Three-day trekking, August, 2019: Known as the second deepest canyon in the world (not the first since it skipped one too many lessons in Jewish philosophy), my tremendous arrogance becoming increasingly clear every step carrying the redundant 16 kilograms with each moment of descent and ascent (which were equally physical as well…
The Strange Stranger (El Extraño Extraño)
As always, I was working quietly in my small shop, hidden by the newly opened five-star hotel of grotesque size standing proudly on the main street. Behind the great building, if you take two lefts and a right, you can find me. There I lurk in the shadows, allowed to carry on with my work,…