D: What if that long-winded guy at the luncheon were to be the commencement speaker tonight? Would that prove what the existentialists and other atheists have been arguing all along?
Me: Turtles....all the way down.
D: The French philosopher/monk Blaise Pascal said all the evil in the world is caused by the inability of men to sit quietly in a room. Now at long last I understand what he meant.
Me: And Jean-Paul Sartre said: Hell is Other People. And now, at long last, I understand what he meant.
D: The French, a people who really know what they're talking about.
Me: Plus, croissants and tongue kissing. Which.
D: Right? Seriously, I'll call in a bomb threat if he shows up tonight.
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