One of my favorite episodes of The Sopranos takes place in season 6, when Tony Soprano is recovering from both a gutshot wound and a near-death experience in the hospital. Tony, his capo Paulie Walnuts, and a Bell Labs physicist are watching a big prize fight in the hospital room of a DMX-like rapper also in the same ward, when the conversation turns to the nature of human existence. While the pairing of individuals in this room is itself worth mentioning, it’s their conversa