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A Conversation Between a Person from Idaho and a Person from North Dakota – Two States I Know Little About

North Dakota -- A place I have never been

Matt Passet, Whim’s most provincial contributor, delves into interstate commerce in his latest Conversation Piece, a short exchange between natives of the Gem State and the Rough Rider State.

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A Conversation Between Two Figures from the Bible – A Book I Have Only Skimmed

Moses in corporeal form.

Matt Passet, Whim’s least spiritual contributor, delves into the Old and New Testaments in his latest Conversation Piece, a short exchange between Moses and his boss’s son.

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A Conversation Between Two Beloved Icons of France – A Country I Have Never Visited

A Conversation Between Two Beloved Icons of France - A Country I Have Never Visited

For this week’s Conversation Piece, Whim contributor Matt Passet dutifully transcribes a brief chat between Napoleon Bonaparte and Marcel Marceau, despite having never taken French, nor ventured further than 50 yards off the Atlantic coast.

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A Conversation Between a Hedgefund Manager and a Civil Engineer – Two Professions I Don’t Really Understand

Welcome to Conversation Pieces, in which Whim contributor Matt Passet reports on conversations between people as imagined by someone with an American public-school education and who didn’t pay too much attention in school but who did just enough to pass the exams.

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