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129 “Hasty Generalization,” said Polly brightly. 130 “I beg your pardon,” said I.

131 “Hasty Generalization,” she repeated. “How can you say that we are well matched on the basis of only five dates?”

132 I chuckled with amusement. The dear child had learned her lessons well. \plenty. After all, you don't have to eat a whole cake to know it's good.\

133 \ 134 I chuckled with somewhat less amusement. The dear child had learned her lessons perhaps too well. I decided to change tactics. Obviously the best approach was a simple, strong, direct declaration of love. I paused for a moment while my massive brain chose the proper words. Then I began: 135 \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. I will languish (vi.憔悴). I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling (摇摇晃晃地走), hollow-eyed hulk.\

136 There, I thought, folding my arms, that ought to do it. 137 \

138 I ground my teeth. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me. At all costs I had to keep cool.

139 \your fallacies.\

140 \ 141 \ 142 \

143 \I hadn't come along you never would have learned about fallacies.\

144 \

145 I dashed perspiration from my brow. \mustn't take all these things so literally. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school don't have anything to do with life.\

146 \ 147 That did it. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. \will you not go steady with me?\

148 \ 149 \

150 \steady with him.\

151 I reeled back, overcome with the infamy of it. After he promised, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand! \great chunks of turf . \He's a rat.\

152 \shouting must be a fallacy too.\

153 With an immense effort of will, I modulated my voice. \I said. \Petey Burch over me? Look at me--a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Petey--a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who'll never know where his next meal is coming from. Can you give me one logical reason why you should go stead with Petey Burch?\

154 \

(from Rhetoric in a Modern Modeby James K. Bell and Adrian A. Cohn) knot head

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1. Max Shulman (1919-- ): one of America's best-known humorists. Max Shulman is a writer of many talents. He has written novels, stories, Broadway plays, movie scenarios, and television scripts. He is the author of Barefoot Boy with Cheek, The Feather Merchant, and Rally Round the Flag, Boys as well as of the TV series Dobie Gillis.

2.Big Men on Campus: important and popular people in the university 3.Stutz Bearcat: name of an automobile

4.Holy Toledo: an interjectional compound (like holy cow! holy smoke! ) to express astonishment, emphasis, etc.

5.What's Polly to me, or me to Polly? : perhaps a parody of \or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her?\Ⅱ, scene 2

6. delish, marvy, sensaysh, terrif, magnif: clipped, vulgar forms for delicious, marvelous, sensational, terrific and magnificent

7. Dicto Simpliciter: clipped form of \a Latin phrase meaning \what (it really is)\8. Post Hoc: clipped form of post hoc, ergo propter hoc, a Latin phrase meaning \happening which follows another must be its result

9. Ad Misericordiam: a Latin phrase meaning \appealing to pity or compassion

10. Walter Pidgeon: a Hollywood film actor

11. fracture: American slang meaning\cause to react with enthusiasm\

12. Pygmalion: (Greek mythology) a king of Cyprus, and a sculptor, who fell in love with his own statue of Galatea, later brought to life by the goddess of love, Aphrodite, at his prayer

13. Frankenstein: the title character in a novel (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: he is a young medical student who creates a monster that destroys Him