... Indeed, they can’t imagine why anyone would want to venture to the surface of the earth—or go to see his mother face to face, as the story’s refractoryhero, Kuno, wishes to do with Vashti, the woman ... ARISTOTLE DIDN’T HAVE A THEORY OF HAPPINESSConnecting these points to the philosophical corpus: in the sense of ‘happiness’that concerns us, Aristotle had no theory of happiness. He had a theory ... even then that the two of them were pretty special, I had no idea of mygreat fortune. Someone must write a book about them. All of these people, andmany other good friends on and off the island,...