Sunday, March 25, 2007

" A Summary of Max Schulman's "Love is a Fallacy""


A young man at age eighteen who was very smart, keen, logical, perspicacious, acute, and astute. Name some and he is that one. He is studying at a law school and he is living with this room mate of his, named Petey Bellows. They are quite the same in their lives with their family, has the same age but Petey is quite opposite as he is when it comes to his inner characteristics. He is as dumb as an ok and a faddist.

He found Petey, with a distress look on his face that the he suspected him to have an appendicitis. He told Petey to stay put and he will call a doctor. Then he heard Petey mumble. Petey wants a “Raccoon Coat”. He then asked why Petey wanted a raccoon coat. Then Petey said that he wanted a raccoon coat because all the big men on campus wear raccoon coats. He exaggeratedly said that he really have to have a raccoon coat. The man/narrator said that raccoon coats are heavy and smell bad but Petey didn't listen to what he said instead, he kept on saying that he has to have one. He'll do anything for it, anything even if it is imortnat to him. An idea came to the man's mind and decded to go home because he remembered that his father has a raccoon coat and this would help him in his plans.He surprised Petey when he came back. But they have agreed that the man would give Petey the coat with a condition. Petey must give Polly Espy to him because he really wants Polly because Polly is best fit for a lawyer's wife but she has a lack even if she is beautiful, and not disgrace. That gave the man a reason to date her. He must fill Polly with her lacks. They had an agreement that the man would date Polly as soon as possible but it is only a date and they are not gong to be as serious as a married couple. After all, he and Polly aren't going steady yet .He then gave Petey the coat and Petey cannot wait to wear it so he did wear it.


When the first date was held with Polly, he first wanted to teach her about a Law Topic which is all about Logic. For five nights of studying and exploring the beauty of Logics,Polly actually enjoyed the disscussions about the different fallacies which one can use to reason out. When he tried to ask Polly about it, Polly then did a big difference. She then knew about fallacies in a short period of time.


When the man finally told Polly her feelings,he was shocked to the way Polly replied to his words, that is, in a way that she make use of the fallacies. The man 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. Polly still didn't rather listened and continued to reply with the use of fallacies. Then Polly told the man that she is going to get steady but with whom? Petey Bellows.Yes, with Petey Bellows. Then, the man wondered why of all the people in the campus, she would get steady with his room mate who is a faddist. Why? It is because of his raccoon coat.

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