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My father...
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During his last days, demanded
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that some philosophy books
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be placed on the locker beside his bed.
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My father's taught philosophy
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as a profession
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and read philosophy for pleasure
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and I wrote only novels.
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He had a right to think that I inhabited
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a space filled with banality,
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filled with gross inventions,
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foolish plot lines.
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The next day I went
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to my father’s old apartment
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and rummaged through the books
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in his study.
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I found his old copy
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of the Critique of Pure Reason
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with many notes in the margin
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and his thumb-nailed edition
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of Plato’s “Symposium”.
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I found a fat volume of Hegel
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and an untouched edition
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of Derek Parfit’s “On What Matters”.
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