Intellectuals

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To me, it has always been a treat to observe the so-called naturals — people with an inborn gut instinct so gizzardly you think them bears. Ask them how it’s done, what they think about their way of being, what it’s it like to always go on skilled hunch.

They won’t tell you. Some of them instinctively know that trying to dissect their gut with the intellect would at best give them an irritating head-tingle, and at worst a migraine. Some…