Keen was cool and logical. He was also keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute. At the age of eighteen he has already a brain as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as chemist’s scales and as penetrating as a scalpel.
He has a roommate, named Petey Bellows that does not have a giant intellect. Petey was a nice enough fellow but an emotional type, unstable, impressionable and worst of all is a faddist.
One afternoon he saw Petey lying on his bed with such distress on his face in which he detected to be appendicitis. He said to Petey not to move for he would call a doctor.
Petey mumbled thickly of raccoon. Petey wants a raccoon coat. Therefore, he perceived that Petey’s trouble was not physical but mental.
Therefore, he asked Petey the reason of wanting a raccoon coat when in fact, raccoon coats are unsanitary and it shed and smell bad. In the first place they weigh too much and unsightly. In addition… but Petey interrupted that he would give anything for a raccoon coat.
Moreover, it happened that he knew where to get a raccoon coat. His father had one in his undergraduate days and it now lay in a trunk in the attic back home. In addition, it happened that Petey had something that he wanted. In addition, he refers to Petey’s girl, Polly Epsy.
He had long coveted Polly Epsy. His desire for Polly was not emotional in nature but he wanted P olly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.
He was a freshman in law school and in a few years, he would be out in practice. He was well aware of the importance of the kind of wife in furthering a lawyer’s career. In addition, with one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.
Beautiful she was. Gracious she was. She had as erectness of carriage, an ease of bearing, a poise that clearly indicated the best of breeding. At table, her manners were exquisite. Intelligent she was not. However, he believed that under his guidance she would smarten up.
He asked Petey if he love with Polly Epsy. If he has any kind of formal arrangement with her and if not is there any other man for whom she has a particular fondness. Moreover, Petey just answered no. Then he took his suitcase out of the closet, closed it, and left.
In Monday morning, when he got back he opened his suitcase and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object that his father had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925.
When Petey saw it, he asked him what he wants. In addition, he answered his girl, Polly. At first Petey was shocked nit in the end they have a deal.
Then he had his first date with Polly the following evening. However, he went back to his room with a heavy heart. He had gravely underestimated the size of his task. In addition, at first, he was tempted to give her back to Petey but then he got to thinking about her abundant physical charms and about he way she entered a room and the way she handled a knife and fork, and he decided to make an effort.
He went about it, as in all things, systematically and gave her a course in logic. They were going over to the Knoll and talk in their next date.
Moreover, he explained to her about logic, that it is a science of thinking. In addition, these they are going to talk. Moreover, they examined the fallacy called Dicto Simpliciter and he gave an example. Then the fallacy called Hasty Generalization and he gave an example. Next, they examined about Post Hoc, then Contradictory Premises. Nevertheless, when he consulted his watch, he thought that he had to take him home. Moreover, he went home with no improvements at all.
Then the next evening they had their first fallacy called Ad Misericordian. Then they talked about Ad Misericordian, then the False Analogy and the Hypothesis Contrary to Fact. Then lastly they talked about the fallacy called Poisoning the Well and as he said an example, he saw Polly thinking hardly. At last Polly, understand a fallacy. Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a cretin, he began a long, patient review of all he had told her.
Now the time had come to change their relationship from academic to romantic. Therefore, he asked her if will she or not go steady with him and she replied not. Therefore, he asked the reason and she answered that she had made a promise to Petey Bellows that she would go steady with him. With an immense effort of will, he modulated his voice and asked her to give him one logical reason why she should go steady with Petey and she answered that she certainly can and she declared that Petey Bellows got a raccoon coat.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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