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No. 389935
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>"You're welcome. But before you go, I'd like to ask you something."
>"Yes?"
>"The Tsimtsum sank on July 2nd, 1977."
>"Yes."
>"And I arrived on the coast of Mexico, the sole human surviwor of the Tsimtsum, on February 14th, 1978."
>"That's right."
>"I told you two stories that account for the 227 days in between."
>"Yes, you did."
>"Neither explains the sinking of the Tsimtsum."
>"That's right."
>"Neither makes a factual difference to you."
>"That's true."
>"You can't prove which story is true and which is not. You must take my word for it."
>"I guess so."
>"In both stories the ship sinks, my entire family dies, and I suffer."
>"Yes, that's true."
>"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which
story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"
>Mr. Okamoto: "That's an interesting question..."
>Mr. Chiba: "The story with animals."
>Mr. Okamoto: "Yes. The story with animals is the better story."
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