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There isn'ttime!" I finished for him. "And besides, you don'tfeel like being reasonable! That's splendid!"
He saw nothing very splendid about it, Rexford declared; but as he did not after all order me out, I explained to him briefly what I took to be the essence of my former error, and how I'd come to understand that East and West Campuses, goat and Grand Tutor, even Passage and Failure, were inseparable and ultimately indistinguishable.
"You talk like The Living Sakhyan," the Chancellor scoffed. "Be reasonable now: what do you propose?"
My first proposal, I told him, was to cease being reasonable -- as if there were a floodlit Boundary between Reason and Unreason! Did his stubborn insistence upon reason at any price not prove the fallacy of such distinctions?
"So we should surrender to the Nikolayans?"
"Not surrender," I said,"embrace."
"Nonsense."
"Right!" I cried again. "Embrace nonsense!Be moderate when you feel like it!Don't always be reasonable with your wife! Make the guards look down so they can see what thin air they're standing on, just like Entelechus! Go hug your brother!"
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