The Socrates Express

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For Sharon

“Sooner or later, life makes philosophers of us all.”

—MAURICE RISELING

INTRODUCTION

Departure

We are hungry. We eat and eat and eat some more, yet still we are hungry.

Sometimes we experience the hunger as a faint presence; other times, when the world is upended and fear roams unchecked, the hunger swells, and threatens to consume us.

We reach for our smartphones. With a swipe of a finger, we can access all human knowledge: from ancient Egypt to quantum physics. We gobble it up, but still we are hungry.

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