For a moment, Roy didnt respond. Glenn had a point. Roy’s own first marriage, to Sandy, had gone south because of his dedication to his work. And so had Glenn’s marriage to his wife, Ari. Being a good homicide detective could easily consume your life. Hows Europe anyway? 32 therefore Rucci had introduced me to her and I wasnt sure whether she was planted on me or not. I didn’t think so but I didn’t know. I said: Here’s her number. You call her back and say you heard from me and that I was leaving town right then. Get it? Otherwise we can eat the dog, Bruno said. ‘It looks like it’s on the way out.’ What ship? Macintosh spit on the sidewalk and didnt say anything. I said: Okey, keed! I’d see that Ziggy took his vacation or something. I’ve got to be out on the street sometimes and he’s against us. I cant tell you. It was... well, I can’t remember the exact place. The small bathroom had a fearsome clarity about it. Six inches from her right hand, the green plastic handle of a trick toothbrush with small tilted head gleamed against the cheap marble finish of the black linoleum. By some odd chance, the toothbrush had fallen parallel to the long line of her robed body and the head was slanted at the same abrupt angle as hers. Oh yes she did. And the fine in Georgia was a thousand bucks, too, some coincidence, huh? Mama paid the fine, of course. Mama always pays, doesnt she, she never learns. It is three minutes past eight when she arrives at Volumes and Tomes. I am standing outside the shop waiting for her. She is wearing this morning a dark blue pleated skirt, sheer blue pantyhose, black French-heeled pumps, a white blouse with a stock tie, and a gray jacket. She reminds me of the private-school girls you see walking along Madison Avenue on their way to or from school. The gray jacket is lacking only a school crest to make what shes wearing look like a uniform. Suppose, now, that the partisans of this theory had contrived to introduce a consistent and undeviating use of the term according to this definition. Suppose that they had seriously endeavored, and had succeeded in the endeavor, to banish the word disinterestedness from the language; had obtained the disuse of all expressions attaching odium to selfishness or commendation to self-sacrifice, or which implied generosity or kindness to be any thing but doing a benefit in order to receive a greater personal advantage in return. Need we say that this abrogation of the old formulas for the sake of preserving clear ideas and consistency of thought, would have been a great evil? while the very inconsistency incurred by the co-existence of the formulas with philosophical opinions which seemed to condemn them as absurdities, operated as a stimulus to the re-examination of the subject and thus the very doctrines originating in the oblivion into which a part of the truth had fallen, were rendered indirectly, but powerfully, instrumental to its revival. He said hed known I was wrong and that he’d tried to tell me but that I wouldn’t listen. Then the door across the hall opened and Joey Free came out of it and saw us and said: Hi, Shean! What’s going on? Nothing. Some curious instances of false analogy are to be found in the arguments of the Stoics to prove the equality of all crimes, and the equal wretchedness of all who had not realized their idea of perfect virtue. Cicero, toward the end of his Fourth Book,De Finibus, states some of these as follows: Ut, inquit, in fidibus plurimis, si nulla earum ita contenta numeris sit, ut concentum servare possit, omnes æque incontentæ sunt; sic peccata, quia discrepant, æque discrepant; paria sunt igitur. To which Cicero himself aptly answers, “æque contingit omnibus fidibus, ut incontentæ sint; illud non continuo, ut æque incontentæ. The Stoic resumes: “Ut enim, inquit, gubernator æque peccat, si palearum navem evertit, et si auri; item æque peccat qui parentem, et qui servum, injuriâ verberat; assuming, that because the magnitude of the interest at stake makes no difference in the mere defect of skill, it can make none in the moral defect: a false analogy. Again, “Quis ignorat, si plures ex alto emergere velint, propius fore eos quidem ad respirandum, qui ad summam jam aquam appropinquant, sed nihilo magis respirare posse, quam eos, qui sunt in profundo? Nihil ergo adjuvat procedere, et progredi in virtute, quominus miserrimus sit, antequam ad eam pervenerit, quoniam in aquâ nihil adjuvat: et quoniam catuli, qui jam despecturi sunt, cæci æque, et ii qui modo nati; Platonem quoque necesse est, quoniam nondum videbat sapientiam, æque cæcum animo, ac Phalarim fuisse. Cicero, in his own person, combats these false analogies by other analogies tending to an opposite conclusion. “Ista similia non sunt, Cato.... Illa sunt similia; hebes acies est cuipiam oculorum: corpore alius languescit: hi curatione adhibitâ levantur in dies: alter valet plus quotidie: alter videt. Hi similes sunt omnibus, qui virtuti student; levantur vitiis, levantur erroribus..