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1、Love is Fallacy by Max Shulman Cool was I and logical。Keen,calculating,perspicacious,acute and astuteI was all of these。My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,precise as a chemists scales,as penetrating as a scalpel.Andthink of it!I only eighteen。It is not often that one so young has such a giant inte
2、llect.Take,for example,Petey Bellows,my roommate at the university.Same age,same background,but dumb as an ox.A nice enough fellow,you understand,but nothing upstairs。Emotional type。Unstable.Impressionable.Worst of all,a faddist。Fads,I submit,are the very negation of reason。To be swept up in every n
3、ew craze that comes along,to surrender oneself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing itthis,to me,is the acme of mindlessness。Not,however,to Petey.One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis.“Dont mov
4、e,I said,“Dont take a laxative.Ill get a doctor。”“Raccoon,”he mumbled thickly。“Raccoon?”I said,pausing in my flight。“I want a raccoon coat,he wailed.I perceived that his trouble was not physical,but mental.“Why do you want a raccoon coat?”“I should have known it,”he cried,pounding his temples.“I sho
5、uld have known theyd come back when the Charleston came back。Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks,and now I cant get a raccoon coat。”“Can you mean,I said incredulously,“that people are actually wearing raccoon coats again?“All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them.Whereve you been?”“In th
6、e library,”I said,naming a place not frequented by Big Men on Campus.He leaped from the bed and paced the room。“Ive got to have a raccoon coat,”he said passionately。“Ive got to!”“Petey,why?Look at it rationally.Raccoon coats are unsanitary.They shed。They smell bad.They weigh too much.Theyre unsightl
7、y.They”“You dont understand,”he interrupted impatiently.“Its the thing to do。Dont you want to be in the swim?”“No,”I said truthfully。“Well,I do,”he declared.“Id give anything for a raccoon coat。Anything!My brain,that precision instrument,slipped into high gear.“Anything?I asked,looking at him narrow
8、ly。“Anything,”he affirmed in ringing tones。I stroked my chin thoughtfully.It so happened that I knew where to get 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 didnt have i
9、t exactly,but at least he had first rights on it.I refer to his girl,Polly Espy.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 Po
10、lly for a shrewdly calculated,entirely cerebral reason。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 lawyers career。The successful lawyers I had observed were,almost without exception,married to b
11、eautiful,gracious,intelligent women。With one omission,Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.Beautiful she was.She was not yet of pinup proportions,but I felt that time would supply the lack。She already had the makings.Gracious she was.By gracious I mean full of graces.She had an erectness of c
12、arriage,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 Kampus Korner eating the specialty of the house-a sandwich that contained scraps of pot roast,gravy,chopped nuts,and a dipper of sauerkrautwithout even gettin
13、g her fingers moist。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.“Petey,I said,“are y
14、ou in love with Polly Espy?“I think shes a keen kid,”he replied,“but I dont know if youd call it love.Why?”“Do you,”I asked,“have any kind of formal arrangement with her?I mean are you going steady or anything like that?“No.We see each other quite a bit,but we both have other dates.Why?”“Is there,”I
15、 asked,“any other man for whom she has a particular fondness?”“Not that I know of.Why?”I nodded with satisfaction。“In other words,if you were out of the picture,the field would be open.Is that right?”“I guess so.What are you getting at?“Nothing,nothing,I said innocently,and took my suitcase out the
16、closet.“Where are you going?”asked Petey。“Home for weekend.”I threw a few things into the bag。“Listen,”he said,clutching my arm eagerly,“while youre home,you couldnt get some money from your old man,could you,and lend it to me so I can buy a raccoon coat?”“I may do better than that,I said with a mys
17、terious wink and closed my bag and left。“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.“Holy Toledo!said Petey reverently。He plunged his hands into the raccoon coat and then
18、his face。“Holy Toledo!”he repeated fifteen or twenty times.“Would you like it?I asked.“Oh yes!”he cried,clutching the greasy pelt to him。Then a canny look came into his eyes。“What do you want for it?”“Your girl。”I said,mincing no words.“Polly?”he said in a horrified whisper.“You want Polly?“Thats ri
19、ght。”He flung the coat from him。“Never,”he said stoutly.I shrugged.“Okay。If you dont want to be in the swim,I guess its your business.”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 expre
20、ssion 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 didnt turn aw
21、ay at all;he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat.“It isnt as though I was in love with Polly,”he said thickly.“Or going steady or anything like that.”“Thats right,I murmured.“Whats Polly to me,or me to Polly?”“Not a thing,said I.“Its just been a casual kickjust a few laughs,thats all。”“T
22、ry on the coat,”said I.He complied.The coat bunched 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.I rose from my chair.“Is it a deal?”I asked,extending my hand.He swallowed.“Its a deal,”he said and shook my hand。I
23、had my first date with Polly the following evening.This was in the nature of a survey;I wanted 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 dinner,she said as we left the restaurant.Then I took her to a mov
24、ie.“Gee,that was a marvy movie,she said as we left the theatre.And then I took her home。“Gee,I had a sensaysh time,”she said as she bade me good night。I went back to my room with a heavy heart。I had gravely underestimated the size of my task.This girls lack of information was terrifying.Nor would it
25、 be enough merely to supply her with information.First she had to be taught to think。This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey.But then I got to thinking about her abundant physical charms and about the way she entered a room and the way she
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