{"id":998,"date":"2026-02-27T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=998"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:19:44","slug":"chapter-4-in-philosophical-mood032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/27\/chapter-4-in-philosophical-mood032\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4 In Philosophical Mood032"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/26\/chapter-4-in-philosophical-mood031\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page32 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/28\/chapter-4-in-philosophical-mood033\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cKind of. You\u2019re right that it\u2019s about <em>reward<\/em>. The reward for doing it has to be better than the reward for not doing it, otherwise people will simply not do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, so the reward for not watering your horse is no horse?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the reward for looking after somebody,\u201d says KristalClear, \u201cis that somebody will look after you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not letting on what she\u2019s really thinking, it\u2019s not just about job prospects. She\u2019s trying to probe NutJob, and work out his value system, his ethos, and his trustworthiness.<\/p>\n<p>Having just learnt something new from him, the Thomas Mann story, she wants to reward him with one of her own deep and thought provoking discussions. And the <em>end game<\/em> she has in mind is not simply about money management. It\u2019s about persuasion, co-operation and mutualism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do people actually want?\u201d she muses.<\/p>\n<p>Racking his brain for a moment, and trying to come up with a good response, something educational, he says, \u201cMRS GREN?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear doesn\u2019t spot the link at first and replies with a simple, \u201cMrs Gren?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, movement, respiration, sensation, and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are attributes! Attributes of life forms. We did that in science years ago. I\u2019m talking about desires not attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She no doubt said that unintentionally. However it\u2019s alerted NutJob to a different line of thought. Desires! What\u2019s she getting at? He thinks he\u2019d better come up with a really clever response this time. No more text book witticisms!<\/p>\n<p>Buying some time he looks up at the clouds, even if it gains him only a couple of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHmm \u2026 desires?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear realises that she\u2019s let slip her thoughts, and she hopes that he doesn\u2019t clam up. She definitely doesn\u2019t want him to feel uncomfortable. She honestly wants to understand him a little more deeply.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/26\/chapter-4-in-philosophical-mood031\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page32 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/28\/chapter-4-in-philosophical-mood033\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page32 \u2013 Next \u201cKind of. You\u2019re right that it\u2019s about reward. The reward for doing it has to be better than the reward for not doing it, otherwise people will simply not do it.\u201d \u201cOK, so the reward for not watering your horse is no horse?\u201d \u201cAnd the reward for looking after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/27\/chapter-4-in-philosophical-mood032\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 4 In Philosophical Mood032&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}