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Mawkish to think of it so plainly, but was there any sound as joyful as the undiluted laughter of a child? === “you won’t tell me what’s going on.” “I am telling you what’s going on.” Shane turned, looked at himself in the mirror, and narrowed his eyes. “What are you doing?” she asked. “Seeing if I really look that dumb.” === Like Andrew, he wore a jacket and school tie, though where Andrew’s tie was a perfect Windsor, this boy’s looked like that of a middle manager taking the late train home. === Most people oversimplify Occam’s razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn’t complicate, that you shouldn’t “stack” a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess.