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...because we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other's honesty, and be generally congenial the one to the other; since from difference in feeling springs also difference in conduct.

--- Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War, book 3.
http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.3.third.html

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I'm trying to figure out the logical structure of the little essay I wrote few days back. It looks like this:



The pullback in the top left corner solves the dilemma: the person should be there; the person should not be there.

The story itself is a free monoid built out of experiences described at different levels. The pullback works as the finale.

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