SLPAD - 128 - ?Entropy? - 2 - epigraph

[Mark Kohut]

I do not remember you bringing this up before, Dr. Krafft. And I would think Utica vital question for understanding. My first straightforward thought is that since Tom did NOT add the next line, this is Tom’s way of disagreeing. The story is captured in the epigraph with no surprising attitude change. 

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> On Feb 24, 2024, at 9:07 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's a very Buddhist sort of statement. Non-attachment and all that.
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 5:21 AM Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I've probably raised this issue before, but people seem to ignore it: Does
>> the narrator of Tropic of Cancer take Boris seriously/solemnly? He goes on
>> to say almost immediately, "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am
>> the happiest man alive." Shouldn’t that temper our reading of the short
>> story?
>> 
>> John
>> 
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