“Don’t you think it’s better to be suspicious? Especially now?”

“I do, but I also value my intuition, and I think it is a very dangerous business to start doubting your intuition. Without intuition, the world becomes a flat place, a stunted place. A place where change is impossible.”

Corbeau accuses that Pfeifer thinks everyone is spying for management and he responds with believing it is better to be suspicious in times like now. However, Corbeau stresses that intuition is also very important.

In the marginalia, Jen strongly disagrees with Corbeau’s view on intuition. She thinks that intuition is something that is taught, thus it is changeable and isn’t foundational. Eric tries to reason that intuition is something that you had before being taught. Though, Jen is still against the idea of intuition.

Maybe intuition is something you had before you were taught what you think is your intuition now.

Even if that’s true, what good is it? How could you ever tell?

The footnote mentions that the words Corbeau says about intuition is actually quoted from a letter Hemingway sent to Straka. In the letter Hemingway said that after reading Straka’s work, The Cordillera, he felt an intuitive sense that he and Straka are compatible in art and belief. Straka didn’t respond to the letter.  FXC stresses in the footnote how Straka has no interest in Hemingway’s expatriate grand and puffed-up pronouncement about art and life and manhood. It is interesting to point out that FXC used the word “expatriate” when describing Hemingway.

Jen agrees with the footnote about Hemingway. While Eric points out that in some parts, VMS sounds like Hemingway. In fact, VMS can imitate Hemingway’s writing style if he wanted to.

At the end of this page, Ostrero rushes back to the house and tosses a newspaper onto the table.