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The Same Mug

What did you lose?

The Same Mug

The mug you've drunk from every morning for ten years slips and breaks. You find that the factory still makes it. The replacement arrives, same batch, same weight, same chip-free rim, indistinguishable from yours on day one.

What did you lose?

Then ask

  • Would gluing the old one back together feel different from buying new?
  • Would you tell the friend who gave it to you?
  • Which of your things could never be swapped like this?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Same Boat
  2. The Room of Slips
  3. Mary's Grey Room
  4. The Lever
  5. The Handwriting
  6. The New Song
  7. Same Dog
  8. The Forgery