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point about why you liked this, that it was-- how did you say that?--
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- it was the most-- - Profound joke--
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Profound joke.
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It is a parody of all the meanings of life that philosophy has offered
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up to us over the ages, so it kind of runs through them in
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the voice of our narrator sperm's pal, who is now gone
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and dead before him.
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So, we get a kind of wisdom in a parodic form.
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There are other points, however, and if you look on page 4
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we can see just a little example of one of them.
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This sperm has gained quite a vocabulary, and it includes this
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line: "I have seen the best swimmers of my generation go under."