James charles T poses and floats towards you in an alleyway, you are trying to go to Ikea but he says "You shall not pass, heed my riddle..." You look at him he looks back at you...You then say "Okay boomer."
He responds "Is nothing nothing or is nothing something, mortal?"
You eye him and say..

answer: sure

explanation: i'd love to know everything but that burden is too much to bare.

      the correct answer is fluency

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.

i wonder if it is possible to place reagans testimony and paragragh 18, so we can compare and contract the ideas in the text.