LoVe Is a FallAcy by Max Schulman

Think of it! -I was just only eighteen having a powerful, precise brain penetrating as a scalpel. I was a cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute,astute kind of person.

I had this roommate named Petey at the university. We have the same age and background. He is that emotional , unstable and impressionable type. Then one afternoon, I saw Petey lying in his bed with a expression of such distress on his face just as i thought he was suffering from appendicitis. When I approached him, he told me and mumbled thickly that he wanted a raccoon coat which makes me think that he is seriously not having a trouble in physical,but mental. Then I told him that it is unsanitary, they smell awful and that they weigh too much so, why would he like one?Then Petey made interruptions of what I am saying. He was saying to me that all of the big men in our campus are wearing them so,Petey must be jealous of these men wearing raccoon coats. But because of his impatient interruption, it really makes me say that he would do anything just for a raccoon coat and he really badly wants it.

Just as we were having a conversation, It so happened that I knew where to get my hands on a raccoon coat. My father 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 also wanted and that is Polly Espy, the girl I wanted for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason. Petey didn't have her exactly, but at least he had first rights on her.

I was a freshman in a law school then. My desire for this young woman was not emotional in nature. Beautiful, gracious, with manners she was! But what bothers me is that she is not intelligent. But I taught of making her my perfect wife through my learning.

I went home for a weekend then after my conversation with Petey, trying to do better than lending him some money to buy a raccoon coat.

I returned to the campus the next Monday morning bringing the raccoon coat of my father. Petey was so happy to see the raccoon coat. I told him that I would only give him the raccoon coat if he allows Polly and me to go on a date. Few minutes later, he told me that it was a deal. He agreed on what would happen if he accepts the coat.

I 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. We had a dinner, watched a movie and brought her back home.The girl had a lack of information.

On our next date, we had a logic talked. She wanted me to talk more of these but it was already late in the evening when i got to check my watch. Because of this, we had to stop the conversation and I had to bring her back to the girl’s dormitory. Then I went to my room. I saw Petey lying on the bed with the raccoon coat as if he was hugging cuddling a beast on his arms.

On our next dates, I concluded now that Polly fits to be my wife. She really made me impressed about the last fallacy we discussed. And it does shows that she is really attentive in it.

Time come that I told Polly everything. That I fell in love with her even just for five span of nights that we've been together but she answered me that it was all a fallacy. A Hasty Generalization, a false analogy, Ad Misericordiam and all those fallacies we talked about. And she told me that she will not go steady with me but instead to Petey.I shouted because of anger and disappointment. I once again asked her why she chose Petey over me. I asked for a logical reason. She then told me that “it is all because Petey had a raccoon coat.”