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Is there a distinction between what is real and what is apparently real? This goes to my Picasso story about the "print" in his hostess' bathroom, that he identifies as being an original. His hostess immediately takes the print from the bathroom and replaces another painting from its honored place above the mantelpiece in her living room with the newly discovered Picasso original.

"But why?" asks Picasso, isn't it the same work that was previously delegated to the bathroom?

Is there a distinction between what is real and what is apparently real?

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"Three Indian climbers were trapped high on the Northeast Ridge (of Everest) on May 10, and early the next morning a Japanese party intent on the summit walked past them, though they were still alive. By the time the Japanese descended, one of the climbers was dead, another missing, a third barely alive and tangled in his rope. They removed the rope from the survivor but made no effort to help him down the mountain. He too would die. 'Above eight thousand meters,' one of the Japanese climbers offered by way of self-justification, 'is not a place where people can afford morality.' "

"Fallen Giants, A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes" Maurice Isserman & Stewart Weaver