Word: sequiturs
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Ambiguous Clues. Watching his sister for "signs of wellness," Richard notes, "Meg is now almost feeding herself. When she eats, food splashes over her chin . . . but that only means she's eating with more zest." He desperately tries to find in her crankiest non sequitur some shred of sanity or sense. He does his best to forget that she spends a good deal of time kissing the mirror and dangles the kitten he gave her by its tail...
After some hesitation, White House spokesmen admitted that Nixon's speechwriters had drafted the Ford remarks. Apart from the surprising non sequitur that Nixon's resignation and Ford's ascendancy to the Oval Office would destroy Nixonian policies, the speech was an indication that Ford may have been sandbagged by the White House. Some White House aides had been told of the impending tape report, while Ford apparently had not. Yet he later gamely contended that he still believed what he had said. He lamely dismissed the tape revelation as "a technical and confusing matter...
Thus we see that the "syllogism" that deduces the genetic inferiority of the lower classes from the "high heritability of I.Q." is not a syllogism at all or even a reasonable inference. It is an illogical non-sequitur which completely misuses technical concepts. It is not worth a moment's serious consideration...
Luxury campsites! The very phrase is a non sequitur. As any Boy Scout knows, a campsite is a clearing in the woods where the greatest luxury is a running brook. The basic urge of the true camper is to escape from chlorine, color TV and asphalt. The climb up Mount Horrid is an excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called...
When it comes to actual execution, however, the play caves in. In this theater of non-sequitur, a wonderful sense of the bizarre often drives the play: the audience stays poised to see what new strangeness is in store, because anything can happen. In The Chairs, this finds expression in an oceanic ebb and flow of energy. The actors have to set up chairs at a loud and feverish pitch one instant, and subside into deathly silence and inactivity the next. The varying dynamics of the play as it is written are brilliant, but the demands imposed upon the actors...