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Genesis 3

"Hello, can we talk to you about Jesus Christ?" said the blonde LDS missionary in a thick Swedish accent. His blue-eyed companion said nothing, but stood observing me and I knew that we would get along if he could ever get a word in. 1

"Dunno," I said, looking inside the apartment where my eggs and toast were awaiting preparation for my empty stomach.2

"What are you up to tonight?" 3

"Well, I was gonna go inside, cook some eggs and take a final."4

"Oh," even his single syllables held a thick accent. "Well, it sounds like there's some time in there to talk about Christ." 5

"Yes, but I'm hungry and have homework. Which is why I was going to go inside, cook some eggs and take a final." I wasn't in the mood for this. Though his companion was new, I'd spoken with the Swedish boy before and we tended to think on radically different planes. I was fine with agreeing to disagree. He was not. 6

"Do you remember what your homework was? Did you do it?" I did and I hadn't.7

"Yes and no, because I have other homework, which is why I was gonna go inside, cook some eggs and take a final." Then, for no other reason than my own idiocy, I added, "besides, that wouldn't answer my question. The reading you gave me was totally unrelated to what I asked." That was where it started, the hour-long argument with a man who knows he is unmistaken about something that can't be proven. 8

More later. time for work.

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