Ramble, Part 69: Escape?

There are two sardonic answers to the puzzle of the Spanish Barber. One is to posit that the barber does not live in the village; one pictures a chain of villages, each drawing its barber from the next one up the hill. The other is that the barber is a woman, and hence does not require shaving. The two principal responses to Russell's Paradox mirror these, after a fashion.

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Hmm.

My doorbell just rang. At the door was someone who wanted to encourage me to vote for a certain mayoral candidate on Tuesday.

Nothing unusual about that, eh? It was the candidate in question himself.

Somehow I'm doubtful about his election chances.