– Your hair seems shorter.
– I've been to the barber's.
– Of course. That would explain it.
– A few days ago.
– Really? Have I not seen you since then?
– Yes. Several times.
– How did I not notice? It must have been the way you combed it. You do comb it?
– Yes. But I hardly think that would have made much of a difference.
– Probably I just didn't look at you properly. Or at all. It's a classic example.
– Of?
– Of the mysterious workings of the human mind.
– It is?
– Of course. The way in which, however much you may see an object day after day, the subconscious mind filters it out completely: obliterates all memory. Somehow, it decides that, for whatever reason, it is better that the event should be forgotten.
– And you think that is the case here?
– We should not question these things. They just are.
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