What makes things happen? Why do we talk about schools, or whiskey, or eras or teams as possessing “spirit”?
Are spirits metaphors, stand-ins for the inexplicable?
When a child does something wrong, we ask “why did you do it?”
And the child must contemplate the question. What I did when I was a kid was to shrug and say “I don’t know.” In a very real way…
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