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This is one where he's
particularly unmouse-like.

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It's set in the free
clinic in San Francisco.

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At the free clinic,
Ignatz snoozes

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with his head down on the
second hand classroom desk,

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with his elbow on the part
of it that curves around

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to support his elbow
so that he can shut

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his eyes against the
bend of his own arm,

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with his cheek pressed
against the laminated desktop

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and his fingers just draping
over the laminated plywood

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edge.

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That is the same edge
that curves around

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to dig slightly into
his rib cage, which

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is tilted so his lower
spine stays in contact

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with the molded contours of
the glossy sea-green chair that

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curves around to where
his thighs begin and rises

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slightly where his legs need
to rise and rounds off gently

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and ends just where his legs
need to bend down to the floor.

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So that if this
is a lesson in how

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something harder
and something softer

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can achieve a mutuality,
if the harder thing has

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a curvature that suggests
an accommodating mindset,

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and the softer thing
is willing temporarily

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to relinquish some
measure of contingency

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so the softer thing can
partake of the rest for which

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a location is thereby created
and if a test were devised

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on the subject of
this lesson, then

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what will be gained for one who
took this test and passed it

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or one who took this
test and failed?

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