At the existential sandwich shop your sandwich talks to you. It is unclear if the power of speech and thought is conveyed by the quality ingredients or by the artisan construction. The sandwich philosopher behind the counter, when asked, shrugs her shoulders and says, \u201cWho can say?\u201d
\nStill, you eat it. What else can you do? When confronted with a talking sandwich in an existential sandwich shop it is a simple equation of eat or be eaten.
\nStill, you know it is wrong.<\/p>\n
If I like you I will write you a poem. If not you will live the rest of your life without poetry.<\/p>\n
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If not you will live the rest...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-books","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-aP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/at-the-existential-sandwich-shop-taste-is-subjective\/","url_meta":{"origin":671,"position":0},"title":"At the existential sandwich shop, taste is subjective","author":"David Raffin","date":"August 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the existential sandwich shop all sandwiches remind you existence is meaningless. 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