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While outlining the requirements
for our first critical essay

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of the term, I notice a
hand rising tentatively

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in the classrooms
farthest corner.

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"What if I'm ideologically
opposed to revision,"

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asks the redheaded boy in
a "New Slaves" t-shirt.

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A city bus unloads its pageantry
just outside the window.

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A handful of sparrows erupts
from the equestrian statue

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on the quad.

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I remember Sun Tzu's advice
to humanities instructors,

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which I review on index cards
on the eve of each new term.

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Hold out baits to
entice the enemy.

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Feign disorder and crush him.

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"What exactly is your ideology,"
I ask mentally stroking

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my beard.

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"I'm a Zen Naxalite
crypto Objectivist,"

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replies my interlocutor.

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"How about you?"

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Removing a stray bran
flake lodged in my beard,

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I have no choice
but to improvise.

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"Pro recycling, anti-genocide?"

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A voice from beyond
my peripheral vision

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says, "you're nothing but
a pseudo Kantian neoliberal

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mirage with meta
narcissistic tendencies."

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"No, I'm not."

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"Yes, you are."

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"No, I'm not."

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"Yes, you are."

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