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Fiction

On Sympathy: A Dream Dialogue

Robert R. Clewis dreams about sympathy.

I fell asleep. In my dream, there was an announcer. A pudgy, bald man with a microphone blurted out: “Will the real opponents of Sympathy please stand up?”

He called them up one by one: Ignorance; Self-Interest; Apathy; Lack of Imagination; Justice.

There is one white sheep in this flock, then, I thought: Justice. “Justice is in conflict with Sympathy?”

“Yes,” the announcer answered me.

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