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/         Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines  \
| of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them...            |
|         Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced    |
| only by Masters of the Universal Way of Zen.  In it his mind floated freely,    |
| able to rummage at will among the bits and pieces of data he had absorbed,      |
| undistracted by any outside disturbances.  Logical structures no longer         |
| inhibited him. Pre-conceptions, prejudices, ordinary human standards vanished.  |
| All things, those previously trivial as well as those once thought important,   |
| became absolutely equal by acquiring an absolute value, revealing relationships |
| not evident to ordinary vision.  Like beads strung on a string of their own     |
| meaning, each thing pointed to its own common ground of existence, shared by    |
| all.  Finally, each began to melt into each, staying itself while becoming      |
| all others.  And Mind no longer contemplated Problem, but became Problem,       |
| destroying Subject-Object by becoming them.                                     |
|         Time passed, unheeded.                                                  |
|         Eventually, there was a tentative stirring, then a decisive one, and    |
| Nakamura arose, a smile on his face and the light of laughter in his eyes.      |
\                 -- Wayfarer                                                     /
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According to the Fact Sphere: "He will most likely kill you."


In the spirit of William Shakespeare: Thou art a loggerheaded, common-kissing gudgeon.