Goines On: “Nemesis” meets its nemesis

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Goines’ friend Mark asked him whether he’d read Lord Jim or Nemesis. Goines recognized Lord Jim as a novel by Joseph Conrad, and he thought he had read it, but he couldn’t remember what it was about. Of Nemesis he had no recollection. A shallow Google search revealed a novel by Isaac Asimov, which surprised Goines, because he didn’t think Mark read sci-fi. A slightly deeper search revealed a novel by Agatha Christie. Funny, Mark didn’t read detective fiction either.