How had the met? By chance, like everyone else. What were their names? What does it matter to you? Whence had they come? From the nearest possible spot. Where were they going? Do we ever know where we’re going? What were they saying. The master said nothing, and Jacques said that his captain said that everything hat happens to us down here, good or bad, was written up yonder.
The Master. That’s saying a lot.
–Denis Diderot
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