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Ignorance Is Bliss. No, Really. It Is.
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Ignorance Is Bliss. No, Really. It Is.

The magic of not knowing.

Randall R. Greenwald
Aug 01, 2022
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Sam is a character in E. B. White’s children’s novel The Trumpet of the Swan who embodies a spirit of wonder. Sam kept a diary, and like most keepers of diaries he recorded things he had seen and done. Unlike most, however, Sam “. . . always ended by asking himself a question so he would have something to think about while falling asleep.”1 Everything wa…

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