Lisa remembers having written something without doing too much of her home work. The next week, david wrote a rebuttal to my paper. He was very serious. And it wasn't a matter of not being nice. David and lisa went out together once after that, in october. They worked like crazyd we did compete for grades, but we did not regard one another as the enemy. We had all been werdos in high school. Finding oneself at swarthmore was really an entrance to paradise.
What was David Lewis like as a person? The consensus is that he did not know how to converse. At Swarthmore, David Lewis discovers he has a knack for philosophy and none at all with women, leading to a lifelong examination of the norms for conversation. By the time he reaches Harvard, he is ready to meet the love of his life, but almost fails out of the program in the process. By the end of his Harvard days, an entire continent on the other side of the Earth is abuzz about a rising star. Guest voices include Steffi Lewis, Alan Hajek, Lise Menn, Frank Jackson, and John Bigelow,
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