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FernandoPessoa'sparadoxical1922shortstoryisstyledasaPlatonicdialoguebetweenawealthybankerandhiscolleague,inwhichthebankerexplainsthestrictlylogicalpaththatledhimstep-by-stepfromananarchistyouthtobeingtheonlytrueandconsistentanarchist.Thetaleplayfullyunderminesmanyofthefoundingtextsofpolitical'enlightenment'(Descartes,Hobbes,Locke,Malthus,Rousseau,Smith,Spinoza),aswellasmakingadevastatingcritiqueofrevolutionarypsychologyandof1917Bolshevism.Likemagic,thesleightofhandistransparent,apparentlyconvincingusofthebanker'sinexorablelogic,whiletheplotchallengesustodiscovertheflawintheshockingtwistofthewealthybanker'slogic.



