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“Coach Cooper,” Tompkins said, using George’s football-coach title like a peace offering. “We have a situation. This is Dale. He’s our senior chess champion. Regional runner-up.”

Mary Cooper, hair lacquered into a bronze helmet, slapped the top of the machine. “George! The picture’s gone to snow again!”

Sheldon considered this for a full seven seconds. “That’s a logical paradox. Kindness is a social construct. Facts are not. If I am factually correct, then any negative emotional response is a failure of the recipient’s cognitive processing, not a failure of my delivery.” young sheldon s01e01 720p web-dl

From the living room, a sigh like a deflating tractor tire. George Cooper Sr. was trying to watch a college football recap on the main television. “Mary, for the love of—it’s a recording. It doesn’t have to be perfect.”

“I’m aware,” Sheldon said. “Time is relative. Intelligence is not.” He’s our senior chess champion

He didn’t fill in the second column. He just stared at it for a long time, the way a mathematician stares at an unsolved proof.

“Mr. Tompkins. You’re three minutes late. Punctuality is the first principle of intellectual rigor.” He descended the stairs one careful step at a time, as if each tread might be booby-trapped. “Dale. Elo rating?” The picture’s gone to snow again

George’s face went through five stages of grief in two seconds. “Don’t tell me.”