On Apr 1, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> A friend of mine at the U of Michigan mentioned a short story by
> O'Henry
> which he used in introduction-to-philosophy classes to illustrate the
> meaning of "fatalism" and distinguish it from other determinist etc
> perspectives. The story begins three times, with each time the
> protagonist (a young man in a sheephereding-village) making a totally
> different choice, leading to a totally different life, but each life
> ends with his being killed with the same set of dueling pistols. If
> anyone knows of this story one might send it to relevant parties
> off-list so thay might stop being a disgrace to the faculties of Yale
> and Virginia.
O. Henry? I think I read him in junior high school.