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You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.___ell, didn__ you? You were there.___o, I didn____o_ well, maybe I did, but it didn__ feel like it.___hy should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.___ut_ but__ Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. __t denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That__ silly.___ell, didn__ you?
Robert A. Heinlein By His Bootstraps
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You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.___ell, didn__ you? You were there.___o, I didn____o_ well, maybe I did, but it didn__ feel like it.___hy should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.___ut_ but__ Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. __t denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That__ silly.___ell, didn__ you?

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