[Edgeworth turns his head away from Phoenix sharply and takes his own elbow into a death grip. To be confronted by him about that paradox of a case on the mountain leaves the prosecutor feeling cornered. Here is the man he trusts like no other, talking to him about the case whose solution conflicted with what ought to be reality -- a solution that very man is responsible for, after having apparently inadvertently thrown one of the premises on which Edgeworth built his view of reality into question. The conflict is enough to make Edgeworth want to scream.]
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[Edgeworth turns his head away from Phoenix sharply and takes his own elbow into a death grip. To be confronted by him about that paradox of a case on the mountain leaves the prosecutor feeling cornered. Here is the man he trusts like no other, talking to him about the case whose solution conflicted with what ought to be reality -- a solution that very man is responsible for, after having apparently inadvertently thrown one of the premises on which Edgeworth built his view of reality into question. The conflict is enough to make Edgeworth want to scream.]