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One night, at about 3 am, I think, there was a knock on my door. I put aside Plato’s comparison of the human condition to that of prisoners chained in a cave, and went out.
The person who knocked on my door points to where a man is lying in the road with his bicycle or moped lying some distance away. I go back to my hut, and dial 999 to report this fact.
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