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“Have you ever thought about pursuing a major in philosophy?”
As my professor speaks, a vivid image unfolds in my mind.
I crouch in the underbrush amid a stand of trees, staring across the vast steppes at a shoal of enormous flying salmon.  My eyes fix on my quarry:  the largest of the lot, at least five meters in length, with the full text of the Dao De Jing inscribed in delicate characters across its scales, a gleam of Humeshine glinting off its eye in the cool evening light.
I shift my weight forward and ready my fishing spear.  A net, not nearly large enough, hangs over my shoulder.  I’m sweating in the full camo that I’ve not washed in days.
My mission is to rescue Major Sartre from the bowels of the beast, then consume its knowledge and thereafter its flesh in glorious victory.  The fish is just out of range; I’ll have to leave the cover of the foliage to make the shot.
I burst from the shrubbery, spear raised, never once glancing away from the Major’s badge, dangling from an oversized fishhook on the monster’s lower jaw…
“Hello?”  My professor’s voice breaks me from my reverie.
“Yes,” I murmur, still gazing into the distance.  “I’ve thought about it.”
Based on a true story.

This gives you a little window into what sort of thing goes on in my mind when somebody asks me a question.  If you ask me something and I never respond, it’s probably because it started one of these little scenarios in my head and I forgot there was a question to begin with.
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