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Hegel with Cream Cheese

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I remember being a little kid at Audubon Elementary School in the suburbs of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, looking at the globe on a bookshelf. I don’t remember what grade I was in, but I well remember the idea that popped in to my head as I looked at the planet – – – specifically, the continents of Africa and South America – – and thought to myself, “those two pieces fit together.”

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