I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.