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Love is a FallacyMax Shulma n1 Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sun days, unfettered the in formal essay with his memorable Old Chi na and Dream's Childre n. There follows an in formal essay that ven tures eve nbeyond Lamb's frontier, indeed, "informal" may not be quite the right word to describe this essay; "limp" or " flaccid" or possibly "sp on gy" are perhaps more appropriate.2 Vague though its category, it is without doubt an essay. It develops an argument; it cites instances; it reaches a conclusion. Could Carlyle do more? Could Rusk in ?3 Read, the n, the followi ng essay which un dertakes to dem on strate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipli ne, is a liv ing, breath ing thi ng, full of beauty, passi on, and trauma --Author's Note4 Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculat ing, perspicacious, acute and astute--I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dyn amo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And--think of it! --I was only eightee n.5 It is not ofte n that one so young has such a gia nt in tellect. Take, for example, Petey Butch, my roommate at the Uni versity of Minn esota. Same age, same backgro und, but dumb as an ox. A nice eno ugh young fellow, you un dersta nd, but nothing upstairs. Emoti onal type. Un stable. Impressi on able. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very n egati on of reas on. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surre nder yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it--this, to me, is the acme of min dless ness. Not, however, to Petey.6 One after noon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expressi on of such distress on his face that I immediately diag no sed appe ndicitis. "Don't move,"I said. "Don't take a laxative. I'll get a doctor."7 "Racco on," he mumbled thickly.8 "Racco on?" I said, paus ing in my flight.9 "1 want a racco on coat," he wailed.10 I perceived that his trouble was not physical, but men tal. "Why do you want a racco on coat?"11 "1 should have known it," he cried, pounding his temples. "1 should have known they'd come back whe n the Charlest on came back. Like a fool I spe ntall my money for textbooks, and now I can't get a racco on coat."12 "Ca n you mean." I said in credulously, "that people are actually weari ng racco on coats aga in?"13 "All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where've you been?"14 "In the library," I said, naming a place not freque nted by Big Men on Campus15 He leaped from the bed and paced the room, "I've got to have a raccoon coat," he said passionately. "I've got to!"16 "Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smell bad. They weight too much. They're unsightly. They--"17 "You don't understand," he interrupted impatiently. "It's the thing to do. Don't you want to be in the swim?"18 "No," I said truthfully.19 "Well, I do," he declared. "I'd give anything for a raccoon coat. Anything!"20 My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. "Anything?"I asked, looking at him narrowly.21 "Anything," he affirmed in ringing tones.22 I stroked my chin thoughtfully. It so happened that I knew where to set my hands on a raccoon coat. My father had had one in his undergraduate days; it lay now in a trunk in the attic back home. It also happened that Petey had something I wanted. He didn't have it exactly, but at least he had first rights on it. I refer to his girl, Polly Espy.23 I had long coveted Polly Espy. Let me emphasize that my desire for this young woman was not emotional in nature. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.24 I was a freshman in law school. In a few years I would be out in practice.I was well aware of the importance of the right kind of wife in furthering a lawyer's career. The successful lawyers I had observed were, almost without exception, married to beautiful, gracious, intelligent women. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.25 Beautiful she was. She was not yet of pin-up proportions but I felt sure that time would supply the lack She already had the makings.26 Gracious she was. By gracious I mean full of graces. She had an erectness of carriage, an ease of bearing, a poise that clearly indicated the best of breeding, At table her manners were exquisite. I had seen her at the Kozy KampusKorner eating the specialty of the house--a sandwich that contained scraps of pot roast, gravy, chopped nuts, and a dipper of sauerkraut--without even getting her fingers moist.27 Intelligent she was not. in fact, she veered in the opposite direction. But I believed that under my guidance she would smarten up. At any rate, it was worth a try. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.28 "Petey," I said, "are you in love with Polly Espy?"29 "1 think she's a keen kid," he replied, "but I don't know if you'd call it love. Why?"30 "Do you," I asked, "have any kind of formal arrangement with her? I mean are you going steady or anything like that?"31 "No. We see each other quite a bit, but we both have other dates. Why?"32 "Is there," I asked, "any other man for whom she has a particular fondness?"33 "Not that I know of. Why?"34 I nodded with satisfaction. "In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?"35 "1 guess so. What are you getting at?"36 "Nothing, nothing," I said innocently, and took my suitcase out of the closet.37 "Where are you going?" asked Petey.38 "Home for the weekend." I threw a few things into the bag.39 "Listen," he said, clutching my arm eagerly, "while you're home, you couldn't get some money from your old man, could you, and lend it to me so I can buy a raccoon coat?"40 "1 may do better than that," I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.41 "Look," I said to Petey when I got back Monday morning. I threw open the suitcase and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object that my father had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925.42 "Holy Toledo!" said Petey reverently. He plunged his hands into the raccoon coat and then his face. "Holy Toledo!" he repeated fifteen or twenty times.43 "Would you like it?" I asked.44 "Oh yes!" he cried, clutching the greasy peltto him. Then a canny look came into his eyes. "What do you want for it?"45 "Your girl," I said, mincing no words.46 "Polly?" he said in a horrified whisper. "You want Polly?"47 "That's right."48 He flung the coat from him. "Never," he said stoutly.49 I shrugged. "Okay. If you don't want to be in the swim, I guess it's your business."50 I sat down in a chair and pretended to read a book, but out of the corner of my eye I kept watching Petey. He was a torn man. First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. Then he turned away and set his jaw resolutely. Then he looked back at the coat, with even more longing in his face. Then he turned away, but with not so much resolution this time. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning . Finally he didn't turn away at all; he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat.51 "It isn't as though I was in love with Polly," he said thickly. "Or going steady or anything like that."52 "That's right," I murmured.53 "What's Polly to me, or me to Polly?"54 "Not a thing," said I.55 "It's just been a casual kick --just a few laughs, that's all."56 "Try on the coat," said I.57 He complied. The coat bun ched high over his ears and dropped all the way down to his shoe tops. He looked like a mound of dead raccoons. "Fits fine," he said happily.58 I rose from my chair. "Is it a deal?" I asked, exte nding my hand.59 He swallowed. "It's a deal," he said and shook my hand.60 I had my first date with Polly the following evening. This was in the n ature of a survey; I wan ted to find out just how much work I had to do to get her mind up to the standard I required. I took her first to dinner. "Gee, that was a delish (=delicious) dinn er," she said as we left the restaura nt. The n I took her to a movie. "Gee, that was a marvy (二marvelous) movie," she said as we left the theater. And the n I took her home. "Gee, I had a sen saysh (=se nsati on al) time," she said as she bade me good ni ght.61 I went back to my room with a heavy heart. I had gravelyun derestimated the size of my task. This girl's lack of in formatio n was terrifyi ng. Nor would it be eno ugh merely to supply her with in formati on First she had to be taught to thi nk. This loomed as a project of no small dime nsions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. But the n I got to thinking about her abundant physical charms and about the way she en tered a room and the way she han dled a knife and fork, and I decided to make an effort.62 I went about it, as in all things, systematically. I gave her a course in logic. It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts at my fin ger tips. "Polly," I said to her whe n I picked her up on ourn ext date, "t oni ght we are going over to the Kn olla nd talk."63 "0o, terrif (=terrific)," she replied. One thing I will say for this girl: you would go far to find ano ther so agreeable.64 We went to the KnoII, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expecta ntly. "What are we going to talk about?" she asked.65 "Logic."66 She thought this over for a minute and decided she liked it. "Mag nif (=magnificent)," she said.67 "Logic," I said, clearing my throat, "is the scienee of thinking. Before we can th ink correctly, we must first lear n to recog nize the_ com mon fallacies of logic. These we will take up toni ght."68 " Wow-dow!" she cried, clapp ing her hands delightedly.69 I winced, but went bravely on. "First let us examine the fallacy called Dicto Simpliciter."70 "By all mean s," she urged, batt ing her lashes eagerly.71, "Dicto Simpliciter means an argume nt based on an un qualified gen eralizati on. For example: Exercise is good. Therefore everybody should exercise."72 "1 agree," said Polly earnestly. "1 mean exercise is wonderful. I mean it builds the body and everyth in g."73 "Polly," I said gently, "the argument is a fallacy. Exercise is good is an unqualified generalization. For instance, if you have heart disease, exercise is bad, not good. Many people are ordered by their doctors not to exercise. You must qualify the generalization. You must say exercise is usually good, or exercise is good for most people. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. Do you see?"74 "No, "she confessed. "But this is marvy. Do more! Do morel"75 "It will be better if you stop tugging at my sleeve," I told her, and when she desisted, I continued: "Next we take up a fallacy called Hasty Generalization. Listen carefully: You can't speak French. I can't speak French. Petey Burch can't speak French. I must therefore conclude that nobody at the University of Minnesota can speak French."76 "Really?" said Polly, amazed. "Nobody?"77 I hid my exasperation. "Polly, it's a fallacy. The generalization is reached too hastily. There are too few instances to support such a conclusion."78 "Know any more fallacies?" she asked breathlessly. "This is more fun than dancing even."79 I fought off a wave of despair. I was getting nowhere with this girl absolutely nowhere. Still, I am nothing if not persistent. I continued.80 "Next comes Post Hoc. Listen to this: Let's not take Bill on our picnic. Every time we take him out with us, it rains."81 "1 know somebody like that," she exclaimed. "A girl back home--Eula Becker, her name is, it never falls. Every single time we take her on a picnic--"82 "Polly," I said sharply, "it's a fallacy. Eula Becker doesn't cause the rain. She has no connection with the rain. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker."83 "I'11 never do that again," she promised contritely." Are you mad at me?"84 I sighed deeply. "No, Polly, I'm not mad."85 "Then tell me some more fallacies."86 "All right. Let's try Contradictory Premises."87 "Yes, let's," she chirped, blinking" her eyes happily.88 I frowned, but plunged ahead. "Here's an example of Contradictory Premises: If God can do anything, can He make a stone so heavy that He won't be able to lift it?"89 "Of course," she replied promptly.90 "But if He can do anything, He can lift the stone," I pointed out.91 "Yeah," she said thoughtfully. "Well, then I guess He can't make the stone."92 "But He can do anything," I reminded her.93 She scratched her pretty, empty head. "I'm all confused," she admitted.94 "Of course you are. Because when the premises of an argument contradict each other, there can be no argument. If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. Get it?"。
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dry: not interesting. 枯燥的 pedantic: too worried about small details or rules. 迂腐的；学究气的 discipline: a subject that people study, especially in a university. 学科 trauma: a mental condition caused by severe shock, especially when the harmful effects last for a long time. 精神创伤
He is an acute observer of the social sense.
他是一个敏锐的社会现象观察者。
Astute：good at judging situations and people quickly and able to use this knowledge for personal benefit astute意为“敏锐的”、“精明的”、“狡猾的”，
Important Sentences
1 There follows...frontier.(para.1,line3): The infomal essay that follows here is freer than the one Charles Lamb wrote.(metaphor) 2 Vague though...an essay.(para.2): Though its category is vague,it certainly an essay.(inversion and ellipsis) 3 Could Carlyle...Ruskin？ Carlyle could not write a better essay than this one, neither could Ruskin.(two rhetorical questions for emphasis)
love is a fallacy故事后续
……“What? No!” The angriness was full of my mind. I had to tell Polly the fact that what kind of person Petey is. I explained peacefully, “The raccoon coat is not his. I lent him a few days ago when I found him lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face. He was dying to have a raccoon coat.”He treated me like that, which led me treat him the same way. “How can he consider the coat as his? Um…Maybe we can meet together tomorrow afternoon and figure all things out. How do you think?”“Okay! It sounds that what you said seems right. But, now, I don’t believe you! So, see you tomorrow.” Polly said, after some hesitation.When I got back to my room, Petey was reading a fashion magazine. “What did you do, Petey? Why did Polly say that she would go steady with you? Can you tell me what’s going on right now?” I just grabbed his magazine, and yelled to him. “Hey, buddy! Don’t be like this. Listen to me. Here is the thing: this afternoon, I came across Polly in my raccoon. I said hello to her. I thought she fell in love with me, after we talked a lot, and so did I. You know, she is so adorable, charming and intelligent. So, I cannot be happy without her, and the deal is not a deal now. Sorry!”And he passed me the raccoon coat. “Owning a pretty girlfriend is also popular, which is better than owning a raccoon coat.”“Ok! Polly wants to see you tomorrow afternoon. You will know she is in love with the raccoon coat instead of you. ”“That’s impossible! I believe that I am the one she loves.” He said seriously.The next afternoon coming, we three all arrived at the place on time.“Petey, why don’t you wear your raccoon coat. You should look very good in the raccoon coat.” Polly stood very close to Petey.“Oh, Polly, I have something to tell you. The raccoon coat is not mine. I borrowed it from Dobie a few days ago. I thought I looked cool in the coat. I was wrong. I realized I don’t need a raccoon coat to let me look cool now, for I have you now. This let me look so cool!”“But if you don’t have a raccoon coat, I will not be with you. With a raccoon coat, you are in fashion, but you don’t have one. I love fashion. So I will not go steady with you.” Polly said disappointedly, and left Petey decisively.Suddenly, I recognized that what a stupid thing I am doing! I don’t want this Polly-style person to be my wife. Then, I accompanied Petey back to our room, telling him that love is a fallacy all the way. And the raccoon coat was back its home, too (in a trunk in the attic back home).。
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• Expressions: • discipline: a branch of knowledge • trauma: (a psychology term) a painful emotional experience or shock, often producing a lasting psychic effect 精神创伤
• Para.5 Expressions:
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • giant intellect: great mind or intelligence dumb as an ox: very stupid 苯 nothing upstairs: (slang) empty-minded, a nitwit无脑筋的 emotional type: not cool-headed易于激动， unstable: changeable, unreliable反复无常 impressionable: easily influenced 容易受别人影响 faddist: person who follows fads (passing fashion) 赶时髦的人 fads: a passing fashion or craze, 赶时髦 submit: to offer as an opinion, suggest, propose 认为，提交，提出 Eg: to ~ a letter of resignation 提交辞职书 To ~ some plans very negation: absolute lack 缺乏 be swept up in: to be carries away by, to follow enthusiastically craze: fad, sth that is currently the fashion 时髦 idiocy: extreme stupidity, the state of being an idiot 白痴 acme: the highest point of development 顶点 acme of mindlessness: the height of stupidity, the greatest lack of intelligence 愚蠢至极
高级英语 Love is a falacy
Organizational Pattern
– 4. (paras. 25-36) sounding out(探听；探询) the relationship between Petey and Polly. – 5. (paras.37-56) unethical(不道德的) transaction over Polly • The student gives the raccoon coat the roommate wants, and his roommate gives his girl friend in return. They have a kind of deal.
Organizational Pattern
• Section IV (Paras. 122-151): the ending of the story: backfiring of all the arguments – The girl learns her lessons too well. She uses all the logical fallacies to fight back her teacher. – Pay attention to his change of emotions:
Introduction to the Text
About the Title
• Perhaps Max Shulman wants the reader, after reading the story, to conclude that “love” is an error, a deception and an emotion that does not follow the principles of logic. • But the writer, through this story has succeeded perhaps unwittingly(无意地) in revealing what love may sometimes mean in the affluent society. Girls do not want brilliant, gifted or educated husbands, but want husbands who are rich and wealthy enough to provide all the things necessary in life— home, clothes, cars...
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• Death: 28 August 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA (bone cancer)
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Love Is a Fallacy
ThesummaryofLoveisafallacy
The summary of Love is a fallacyThis is a funny humorous story . The narrator was a very brilliant freshman majoring in law in the university . He made a deal with his roomate , Petey, who was a typical faddist and was as dumb as an ox . The deal was about the narrator exchange a raccoon coat with Petey’s girlfriend ,Polly, who was a simple ,dumb,lack of intelligence but beauty girl . The first thing the narrator needed to do is to teach her how to think . So he began to taech her logic . In order to make her to be a qualified wife , he made great efforts to teach her . Finally ,Polly had mastered the things the narrator taught her . When the narrator declared he loved her , to his surprise , Polly used all the logic stuff that he taught her to refuse the narrator because she had already agreed to go steady with Petey , the reason being that Petey had a raccoon coat .I want to say 3 points of this passage . First ,humorous and satire run through the whole passage . Second , the language is very vivid ,colorful ,realistic . Third , there are a lot of colloquialisms ,slangs ,and firgures of speech used here .一: First ,humorous and satire ran through the whole passage.①The title is very humorous and well chosen . It has two meanings . When “fallacy” is taken in its rodinary sense,the title means: “There is a deceptive or quality about love .” When it is taken as a specific term in logic , the title means: “Love cannot be deduced from a set of givenpremises . Love is an error , a deception and an emotion that does not follow the principles of logic .”②There are many colloquialisms and slangs . All of these achieve humorous effect . Colloquialisms: dumb,pin-up,kid,go steady,date and so on . Slangs: nothing upstairs,keen,deal,knock out,dreamy,how cute and so on .③The ending is also very humorous . The narrattor could have date with his roommate because he exchanged his raccoon coat for the girl . But the girl refused the narrator because the narrator’s friend had a raccoon coat .二:Second , the language is very vivid , colorful ,realistic . For example : 1,“informal” may not be quite the right word to describe this essay ; “limp”or “flaccid”or possibly “spongy”are perhaps more appropriate . 2, “Oo ,terrif,” she replied .三: There are a lot of colloquialisms ,slangs ,and firgures of speech used here . For example: 1, My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. Comparison ,simile and hyperbole are used here . 2,Read ,then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma .Simile and hyperbole are used here to compaire logic with a person . 3,but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. Iwanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebralreason. Here metonymy is used here . “heart”replace “feeling and emotion”;and “head” replace “reason and sense” .At last , I want to say some good sentences and difficult sentences . Good sentences : 1,To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it--this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. This sentence means to follow every new fashion that appears , to be carried away by it , and to indulge oneself into some stupid thing just because everybody else is doing it---this , in my opinion , is the greatest lack of intelligence . 2,One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. This sentence means that one afternoon, I found that Petey was lying on this bed , and he looked so painful that I at once concluded that he was down with appendicitis . 3,Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning . He turned his head back and forth , and his desire for the raccoon coat was growing , while his determination to have his girl became weaker .Difficult sentences : 1,I had seen her at the Kozy Kampus Korner eating the specialty of the house--a sandwich that contained scraps of pot roast, gravy, chopped nuts, and a dipper of sauerkraut--without even getting her fingers moist. I had seen her eating the special dish in thecampus restaurant without getting her fingers slightly wet , which showed her refined table manners . 2,This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. This sentence means this appears to me a great and hard task with little possibility of achievement , so at first I had the intention to give Polly back to her boyfriend Petey . 3,Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a cretin , I began a long, patient review of all I had told her. This sentence means that encouraged by the idea that Polly was not an idiot comletely , I patiently began to go over what we have discussed with her for a long time .。
现代大学英语第五册 love is a fallacy
Before his two Dobie books, Shulman had already written four other successful novels:
Barefoot Boy With Cheek 《无理的赤脚少年》 The Feather Merchants The Zebra Derby Sleep Till Noon 《衣冠楚楚的商人》 《斑马德比》 《睡到中午》
• Max Shulman„s last novels were “Anyone Got A Match?”, a biting satire（讽刺） about cigarette advertising on television ("Tatums Smoke Mild Like an Innocent Child!") and then finally his semi-autobiographical "Potatoes Are Cheaper".
In 1959, Shulman published another volume of Dobie Stories, “I Was A Teenage Dwarf”.
That same year, Shulman created and produced “The Many Love of Dobie Gillis” TV series for CBS. The show had a run of 147 episodes between 1959 and 1963.
Max Shulman(1919--1988)
One of America‟s best known humorist, a writer of many talents. First delved into(探究) the world of writing as a journalism student at the University of Minnesota.
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第一幕道具：皮毛衣Petey 和polly 在湖边约会。
正当petey很猥琐的想要亲polly时polly一把把他推进了湖里，Petey“what are you doing？！”polly“I am done with you, I love your roommate Jake.”并指着远远走过来的Jake Petey“why?”polly“because he has a raccoon coat.”第二幕道具：酒瓶Dobie抱着一堆书从门口进来，一边照镜子，一边自言自语说“Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute--I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And--think of it! --I was only eighteen.”一不小心踢到了正坐在地上为失恋而伤心的petey，D“what’s wrong with you？Don't take a laxative. I'll get a doctor”petey“raccoon……”“raccoon……”D“what？Raccoon？”P“1 want a raccoon coat”D“Why do you want a raccoon coat?”P“1 should have known they'd come back when the Charleston came back..Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can't get a raccoon coat. So polly just want to leave me alone.”Petey突然站了起来，不小心撞到了正俯着身子看他的dobie，“I must get a raccoon coat!”D“Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are shed. They smell bad. They weight too much. They're unsightly. They……”P“you don’t understand, I'd give anything for a raccoon coat. Anything!”D“anything？”第三幕dobie筹谋着追pollyD“petey, are you still in love with Polly?”P“maybe……I don’t know”D“well，do you have any kind of formal arrangement with her? I mean are you going steady or anything like that?”P “No. We see each other quite a bit, but we both have other dates. Why”D“Nothing.”转身准备行李，然后慢慢走向门口。
P“where are you going？”D“home for the weekend”P“can you lend some money to me so I can buy a raccoon coat？”D“1 may do better than that”第四幕dobie问爸爸要皮衣爸爸在书房看书。
D“dad，you have a raccoon coat, haven’t you? A huge, hairy, gamy object that you had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925. ”“yes, what’s wrong?”“Can you send it to petey, my best friend ? He really want a raccoon coat.”“enn，go ahead, take it.”“thank you, dad,”熊抱一下爸爸。
第五幕dobie 把皮衣给peteyD“look！”P“oh，my ladygaga！”D“would you like it?P“certainly！What do you want for it?”D“girl……young girl”（猥琐的笑）P“polly？”D“that’s right”P“ok，deal~”D很诧异，petey居然这么快答应了。
其实petey想着的是反正polly已经和他分手了。
第六幕dobie和polly 约会D“polly，you are so beautiful.”P“thank you.”D “you’re welcome……do you like logic?”P“logic？I like it.”D“First let us examine the fallacy called Dicto Slmpliciter, which means an argument based on an unqualifiedgeneralization. For example: Exercise is good. Therefore everybody should exercise”P“I agree, I think exercise is wonderful”D“polly，the argument is a fallacy. Exercise is good is an unqualified generalization. For instance, if you have heart disease, exercise is bad, not good.”P“This is marvy. Do more! Do more.”D“Next we take up a fallacy called Hasty Generalization. Listen carefully: You can't speak French. I can't speak French. Petey Burch can't speak French. I must therefore conclude that nobody at the University of Minnesota can speak French.”P“really ？Nobody？”D“Polly, it's a fallacy. There are too few instances to support such a conclusion.”P“Know any more fallacies?”D“Next comes Post Hoc. Listen to this: Let's not take Bill on our picnic. Every time we take him out with us, it rains.”第七幕再一次约会地点：草坪D“"Polly，tonight we will not discuss fallacies”深情的望着pollyP“are you ok?”polly很疑惑的问D“My dear,we have now spent five evenings together. We have gotten along splendidly. It is clear that we are well matched”P“How can you say that we are well matched on the basis of only five dates?”polly 很不屑，冷笑一下。
D“five dates is plenty. After all, you don't have to eat a whole cake to know it's good”dobie觉得很搞笑。
很有兴味的看着pollyP“But I'm not a cake. I'm a girl”D“Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless.”P“are you kidding me？”D“Will you or will you not go steady with me”P“I will not”D“why？”P“because this afternoon I promised Petey Burch that I would go steady with him”D“"You can't go with him, Polly. He's a liar. He's a cheat. He's a rat.”P“I don’t care, he has a raccoon coat.”第八幕polly和petey在一起约会Petey“darling，why you broken up with jack？”Polly“I don’t know why I don’t want to be with him since his raccoon coat has been stolen by a thief.”这个时候，dobie 从远处走来，披着一件更好的外套。
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