Under the circumstances -
to which, momentarily, we
will come - it was perfect-
ly reasonable for Gérard to
wonder what footwear to ad-
opt for his parade by the
reflecting pool today. Hop-
ing for the best could take
at least two forms, and in
his permutative mind there
naturally were more.
The circumstances that per-
plexed him were not meteor-
ological or epistemological,
but tweakingly rhetorical:
were out en masse, to giggle
at his naïveté. They accused
him of walking to summon a
better world; and nothing de-
lights a right-winger more,
than to cite the folly this
represents.
No, he resolved, I'll just
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