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...knew already how the conversation would run, for he had participated in countless similar dialogues. His old friend would say "Hi, Vag. Say, where are you going to school now?" And Vag would answer "Harvard." "What are you studying there?" Old Friend would ask. "Oh, I'm a liberal arts student," Vag would reply. "I guess you might say I'm sort of a history major...
...Vag shuddered as he spotted an old friend walking down the street toward him. He was always some-what apprehensive at these chance encounters, for he had learned long ago that old friends had a way of asking very-hard-to-answer and sometimes embarassing questions...
...here the world ran differently, and it was automatically assumed that one should be going to school for some particular practical goal, that one should be studying to be something. And that was why Vag was shuddering, for he didn't seem to be studying with any specific goal in mind, and he didn't seem to be preparing to be anything...
...then, as inevitably as the sun rises, Old Friend would say, "Oh. Going to be a teacher, eh?" Vag could never completely understand the jump in reasoning from the data he had given to the conclusion that he was going to be a teacher. He knew it had something to do with practicality, for Old Friend would be studying accounting or medicine or journalism or something similar. But Vag could never understand why it wouldn't be equally logical, practically speaking, that he was studying to become an historian. Yet Old Friend never seemed to ask this question...
...probably just as well, for Vag would have had to give the same answer he always gave to the question of whether he was going to be a teacher. "No," he would reply. "Not necessarily. That is, I don't really know what I'm going...