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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A car-rental agent (functional equivalent of a used-car salesman? not quite, I guess) describes himself to my sister:
… trying to tell me that despite his suit and tie, he really is a Batesburg redneck at heart. He said, “I’m not really the clean cutthroat and dried person people think I am!”
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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