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Every journalist knows what he does is morally indefensible, Malcolm opens, then proves it through a convicted murderer suing the writer who befriended him and delivered him to readers as a sociopath.
Set theory, Badiou insists, is the only language that can say what being is. Truth erupts as an event in politics, art, science, or love, and a subject is whoever stays faithful.
A woman returns from her honeymoon, goes to the bathroom, and shoots herself while the family eats lunch. Marías gives the story to her nephew, an interpreter afraid to know.
Charged with corrupting the young and denying the gods, Socrates defends himself, refuses the escape his friends arrange, argues that the soul survives, then drinks the poison. His calm is the hard part.
Callicles tells Socrates that morality is a con the weak run on the strong, who should take whatever they want. Socrates answers that doing wrong harms you more than suffering it ever could.