Monday, March 26, 2007

Max Schulman's Love is a Fallacy(Summary)

A young man at age eighteen who was very smart, acute, and astute.He described his powerful brain as a dynamo. He is studying at a law school and he is living with his roommate named Petey Bellows. Petey was attracted to the latest fashion trends like what the Big Men on campus wear. He heard Petey mumble and Petey wants a “Raccoon Coat” just like the buig men on campus wear. But he doesn't want a racoon coat because he do not feel comfortable wearing it. But there is one thing that Petey has, he is the first one to take for a date, Polly Espy. She is the most elegant and the most gorgeous girl he have so far seen. The way she eats and walks has the word elite on it. She was all he ever wanted, and all an intellectual guy like him would ever need.

He started to date Polly. They went to the movies, ate at a restaurant, and then he guided her home. He thought He really underestimated his task. It was easy dating Polly yet as hard as understanding her. She was so oppisite to him, she is so unintelligent. He had to teach her to be really fit for him as a wife. The next night he introduced to her the world of logic. She didn't seem to understand what that was about, but she was interested as well. Then he thought her about the fallacies of logic. She seemed to respond to every fallacy he introduced, just not the respond I wanted. She didn't seem to understand all I was saying. But then, I tried to keep my patience. She'll learn. I taught her the fallacies of Dicto Simpliciter, Hasty Generalization,Post Hoc, Contradictory Premises, Ad Misericordiam, Hypothesis Contrary to Fact.There was the time when he taught her about the only fallacy she correctly analyzed, the Poisoning the Well. She perfectly responded to the problem he gave her this time. That time, he was already filled with hope again. After the fifth night, He have made the perfect girl. Then, he tried on putting their dates from intellectual to romantic.


When he finally had the courage to tell Polly his feelings that he loved him,he was shocked to the way Polly replied to his words, that is, in a way that she make use of the fallacies. He told her that he doesn't have to apply the fallacies all the time in because these fallacies are only taught inside the a four-walled room but Polly still continued to reply him on those fallacies. Then he asked her directly if she'd accept his love. But he was surprised when she refused, and the reason is because she promised Petey she'll be his that afternoon. He was furious, and I asked her the question that would. "Why do you like Petey Belows?" Her answer was simple. "Because he has a raccoon coat."

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