Word: sequiturs
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PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequitur Irish storyteller around-which may on occasion be more welcome than well-made fiction...
...other faculty members, for a pragmatic (does that mean practical or officious) exercise in the use of logical fallacies at the Faculty Meeting of 4 February. How grand it was to witness a pedagogical display of the honorable non sequitur, the venerable syllogism (in the sense of "a subtle, specious, or crafty argument"), the abundance of ad hominems and post hoc, ergo propter hoc's. "Eloquent" was the evaluation made by one speaker for the pedants who preceded him. No wonder Professor Beer trembles twice for his colleagues. Many, many thanks for an enlightening exposure to "academic freedom...
...mind killing you. You better get back to your seat." Reported Eastland later: "I went right back and sat down." The gunman ordered Pilot Forrest Dines to fly to Cuba, but later tossed his .45 automatic on the cabin floor and surrendered. In an orotund senatorial non sequitur, Eastland said afterward that he saw no reason for changing his mind about guns. "It's all the Supreme Court's affair," he declared. "They make it possible for criminals to run wild...
...Ibsen, The Wild Duck was something of a dramatic non-sequitur. In it he consciously defied the vital premise of much of his earlier (and later) work; that truth must inevitably conquer falsehood. Ekdal, the central character, has lost both fortune and prestige in a grisly episode involving his father's illegal use of government lumber. The father, a broken man, is surviving on the charity of his guilty old friend Werle, who was also involved in the scandal but was acquitted for lack of evidence. In the last 15 years, both Ekdal and his father have built...
...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...