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This is the best short story I've read in a long time. In "Love Is a Fallacy," Max Shulman demonstrates a wit and clarity of language that I find lacking in most modern writing (mine woefully included). The thesis of this story is that a good lawyer's wife must be "beautiful, gracious, and intelligent," and as a first year law student, the narrator sets out to make such a wife. Seeing as how it is "easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful," the author bargains for his roommates girl, who possesses the first two necessary traits, and tries to instill the third. His lessons in logic go terribly awry.
I urge you to take 15 minutes out of your day to read this five page story.
Posted by Owen at September 28, 2003 11:28 PM | TrackBackExcellent read! I expected that ending, though I enjoyed the trip despite it.
I still wonder where people find this stuff.
Posted by: Jason at September 29, 2003 05:08 AMAh yes. People on my high school circuit used to do this one as an interp, actually. If you'd seen a few bad renditions of it like I had you might not like it so much, but it is pretty cute.
Posted by: Andrea at September 29, 2003 02:02 PMWow ! I remember reading this one way back when in my English 1C class. However did you find it ?
Also, I should point out that the original idea belongs to George Bernard Shaw...
Posted by: Bugmaster at October 1, 2003 01:11 PMyeah, it was a funny story, i need to find all the falacy's he points out in the story... but it has to be up to the part where he tells his roomate he wants his girl... any help???
Posted by: priscilla at April 19, 2004 11:53 PMWonderful!
It contains so much things that we ought to think
about.Where we are kiding,we also should think if we have made the same mistake?
And GBS based off of the Greek myth...from whence comes all wit and wisdom.
Posted by: The Golden Fleece at June 30, 2004 02:15 PMthanks for the summary, i had to write a summary for this story and i was getting lazy and bingo i found this website....lol
good looking out yo...
Wow this is such a great short story...lol it was so funny how the guy was willing to trade a racoon fur coat for his girl...But at the end it all goes to show you that one should never underestimate a ladies abilities because she will certainly most definitely outsmarten you!!
-Annie
Grade 11 Student
Canada
I loved this story, especially the ending. This just goes to show that no matter how hard you try to win a girl's affections, she'll always choose the one she wants. lol.
Posted by: Mikey at November 6, 2004 08:05 AMI first read this when I was in highschool off of my aunt's highschool book in the early 70's! This is a really fun read.
Posted by: Rex at November 18, 2004 02:11 AMno compalins...............
need more example
thanks