Last week I was telling the Original Visitor about –

The Original Visitor:  Hello.  I’m back.

Last week I told about my conversation with Standish Wanhope (of course that's not his real name), my table mate at the opening dinner of a conference, who had pushed his atheism so aggressively throughout the meal.

People speak so much more preposterously in real life than in fiction.  I used to write fictional dialogues for college students.  Though I presented the dialogues as fictional, most were at least influenced by actual conversations, and a few of them were very nearly transcripts.

I was talking last week about the young man whom the experience of reading Aristotle’s Ethics had “scared.”  In talking with him, I dropped the ball, and I promised to tell how.

My post this week is a short one.  I’ve been writing about the ways of bringing suppressed moral knowledge back to the surface.  Last time I emphasized that these ways are merely illustrations, not magic tricks to be played on every audience, not use-on-all-occasions conversational stratagems.  Sometimes, I said, the only thing to do is nothing – or what