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Do You Know What Frederick Chopin Looked Like?
Doug's basic point is that any person is kind of a universe. They're too big to comprehend in their entirety. Any translation will only get you a tiny piece of that person, a tiny refraction. What did Frederick Chopin really look like? What was his smile like? We should say we looked into it and there are actually two pictures of Chopin but he's kind of scowling in both.
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