The ship Theseus

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This is not what Ray North had bargained for. As an internation he prided himself on being able to get the job done. Hi demanded that he steal the famous yacht Theseus, the vessel newspaper magnate Lucas Grub had thrown himself to his dea recently had been the scene of the murder of LA rapper Daddy But here he was in the dry dock where the boat had repaired, confronted by two seemingly identical yachts. N security man, who was being held at gunpoint by one of his cro ‘If you want to live, you’d better tell me which one o Theseus,’ demanded Ray. ‘That kinda depends,’ came the nervous reply. ‘You see, w repair the ship, we needed to replace lots of parts. Only, w parts. But as the work progressed, we ended up replacing v When we had finished, some of the guys thought it would be old parts to reconstruct another version of the ship. So that’s w the left, the Theseus repaired with new parts and on the restored from old parts.’ ‘But which one is the genuine Theseus?’ demanded Ray. ‘I’ve told you all I know!’ screamed the guard, as the crony Ray scratched his head and started to think about how he co both …

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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)