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When I was in coIIege,
we had to write a term paper.
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It was for some phiIosophy course
I was taking...
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...on any book we considered...
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...to be the one that best depicted
how we viewed the worId.
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I remember some peopIe picking books
by the great thinkers...
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...Iike Kierkegaard and PIato.
Some kids chose the BibIe.
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I did my paper on
Harold and the Purple Crayon.
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It's a smaII book
about a IittIe boy...
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...who draws the worId
the way he wants it to be...
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...with his magic crayon.
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And I just Ioved that book because...
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...it was about everything
that I wasn't.
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you wanna write crossword puzzIes?
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That's a job somebody wants to do?
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And you'd get paid to do this?
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So you know stuff Iike
Ra is the sun god.
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And the symboI for radium
and the abbreviation for reguIar army.
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ShouId I be impressed or terrified?
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I find it soothing and reassuring...
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...because you know
there are aIways answers.
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yeah, but not to the reaIIy
big questions Iike:
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"Does God exist?"
"What is the meaning of Iife?"
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"Why does my pee smeII funny
when I eat asparagus?"
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Aspartic acid, hence the name.
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And this soothes you?
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yes, since you'II never find
the answers to the big questions...
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...there's a comfort in finding
the answers to the IittIe ones.
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When you finish, there's this...
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...wonderfuI sense
of cIosure knowing...
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...that that IittIe worId
on that haIf-page is compIete.
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you Ieft yourseIf wide open.
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Come to Papa!
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But the problem in a marriage is...
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...if one person is aIways HaroId,
drawing the worId the way they want...
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...the other person has no choice
but to draw it the way it is.
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Which is why they never wrote a book
about HaroId's wife.