We drove off to Knoxville, to my cousin Margaret\u2019s house, and had time to sneak in a nice walk in a quarried area just outside town. \u00a0We walked downtown to Kaizen, a little izakaya with dumplings and noodle bowls for dinner, all delicious.\u00a0 There was a pig diagram on the wall, and I noticed another one on a bicep peeking out from a shirtsleeve.\u00a0 As we left, I got the guy to pose so I could get both in one shot.<\/p>\n
Margaret (who is from Kansas) has her PhD in philosophy, and specializes in aesthetics. She is also an accomplished violinist and flutist. \u00a0She teaches logic and other classes at the University of Tennessee, and we had some great conversations, including one about belief. \u00a0Is a belief something that you actually regard as true, or is it something which you know deep down is false, but that you have chosen to pretend is true?<\/p>\n
Wednesday we had a great Southern breakfast at OliBea, which had a very friendly waiter.\u00a0 The day was somewhat lazy, though we did walk downtown to see the art museum; the history museum was closed.\u00a0 We ate at a nice Southern place downtown, and then visited Margaret’s boyfriend Andrew\u2019s law office.\u00a0 He is interested in Russian history, and has been quite an eBay collector of old military uniforms and other memorabilia.\u00a0 He has some of them displayed there, which ought to surprise his clients, but they don’t notice, for the most part.\u00a0 Their minds are on their own problems, not Czar Nicholas’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We drove off to Knoxville, to my cousin Margaret\u2019s house, and had time to sneak in a nice walk in a quarried area just outside town. \u00a0We walked downtown to Kaizen, a little izakaya with dumplings and noodle bowls for dinner, all delicious.\u00a0 There was a pig diagram on the wall, and I noticed another … Continue reading A Professor in Appalachia, Part 2<\/span>