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Volume I, Book IV, §viii.i, Draft
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Author
Artist/Author: The Honorable Dr.9 Mattanaw, Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh, Retired
Interdisciplinarian with Immeasurable Intelligence. Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.6
- Masters Business & Economics, Harvard University (In Progress)
- Attorney, Pro Se, Litigation, Trial, Depositions, Contracts (E.g. State of Alaska v. Pugh, et. al., Alaska Superior and Supreme Courts)4
- B.S. Psychology, University of Maryland, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude1
- B.S. Computer & Information Science, University of Maryland, 3.91, Magna Cum Laude2
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Maryland.3
- G.E.D., State of Maryland, Montgomery County, 1999.
- Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community, Mensa Lifetime Member
Former Chief Architect, Adobe Systems
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- Published October 30th 2019
Contents
Monday, October 28th, 2019,
“Dr. Lunch”, Part One.
Cast:
Mattanaw, as Dr. Lunch
Some Other Guy, as the Patient
Stage:
[Enters the patient, who quietly waits in the examination room, after the nurse performs some initial checkup tasks. He is not in a hurry, but he is getting slightly irritated about the wait time.
Dr. Lunch then enters. He is apathetic, but makes the appearance of being interested in his new patient. He looks like he has someplace to go.
Lunch box. There is an old-school lunch box in the corner of the room, clearly in view.
It’s a classy antique lunch box.]
Scene
Dr. Lunch:
Well Hello there!
The nurse told me you were having some trouble with acid-reflux.
I’m sorry to hear about that.
We’ll get you fixed up.
I understand you are a new patient.
Patient:
Yes, that’s correct.
Dr. Lunch:
Well, nice to meet you for the first time.
New patients are my favorite.
[grins]
My name is “Dr. Lunch”.
Patient:
“Dr. Lunch?”
[There is an awkward pause]
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…
well…
[Patient is interrupted]
Dr. Lunch:
Oh, don’t even think of it.
It’s exactly like it sounds.
“Lunch”
L. u. n. c. h.
Like the meal.
I LOVE my name.
It’s memorable.
You remember it already.
Patient:
Hmmm…
I think you’re right.
Dr. Lunch:
I am!
OK
Well let’s get to it.
One thing.
It’s 11:40 already.
and…
We’re almost out of time.
Patient:
What?
Out of time?
We just started.
Out of time for what?
Dr. Lunch:
Noon approaches,
and,
I always have someplace I have to be
at noon.
I think you can understand that,
right?
Patient
Ummmm…
I mean, I’m serious about my acid-reflux,
and I have a lot of questions.
At noon I’m usually at work,
around that time,
and I do,
have something to do,
usually,
at noon.
Almost always at noon.
That’s why I chose this time.
I usually have a break,
around this time.
I’m sorry if I’m repeating myself…
[Does a partial face-palm]
Dr. Lunch
Me too, me too.
So I think we can agree,
we both have something to do,
at noon.
[grins]
So here we go.
I promise we will get through
everything.
…
To be continued…
Mattanaw I., formerly "Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh"
I am a retired executive, software architect, and consultant, with professional/academic experience in the fields of Moral Philosophy and Ethics, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and more recently, Economics. I am a Pandisciplinarian, and Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.
Articles on this site are eclectic, and draw from content prepared between 1980 and 2024. Topics touch on all of life's categories, and blend them with logical rationality and my own particular system of ethics. The common theme connecting all articles is moral philosophy, even if that is not immediately apparent. Any of my articles that touch on "the good and virtuous life" will be published here. These articles interrelate with my incipient theory of ethics, two decades in preparation. This Book and Journal is the gradual unfolding of that ethic, and my living autobiography, in a collection of individual books that fit into groups of book collections.
This Book and Journal is already one of the largest private websites and writings ever prepared, at nearly 1 million words, greater than 50,000 images and videos, and nearly one terabyte of space utilized. The entire software architecture is of my creation. Issues of the book for sale can be found under featured. These texts are handmade by myself, and are of excellent quality, and constitute the normal issues of my journal that can also be subscribed to. The entire work is a transparent work in progress. Not all is complete, and it will remain in an incomplete state until death.
I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback and conversation with readers. You can reach me at mattanaw@mattanaw.com (site related), cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu (academic related), or christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org (intelligence related), or via the other social media channels listed at the bottom of the site.