Philosophy: the word sounds like a dream – wistful and gentle and tender, Priya says. Like one of those Japanese flowers that opens in boiling water. Like a lotus flower, blossoming.
You’re actually just on the threshold of philosophy, I say. Once you get into philosophy, it’s a whole lot more rigorous.
Rigorous? I don’t like the sound of that, Priya says.
Philosophy’s mostly badass logic and that sort of thing, I say. Critique. And analysis. The construction of sound arguments, and the testing of arguments …
How disappointing, Priya says. How academic … I think I’ll stay on the threshold. I like the threshold.
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