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How quickly a young man's
senses
assemble and assimilate
the data that is really
relevant!
Without seeming even to look in her direction,
he had performed the
most amazing feat
of lightning calculation known
to the human
faculties.
He had added up all the young ladies
of his acquaintance,
and found
the sum total less than
the girl before him.
He had
subtracted the new phenomenon
from the universe as he knew it,
including the solar system
and the advertising business,
and found the
remainder
a minus quantity.
He had multiplied the contents of his
intellect
by a factor he had no reason to assume "constant,"
and was
startled at what teachers call (I believe)
the "product."
And he had
divided what was in
the left-hand armchair into his own career,
and
found no room for a quotient.
All of which transpired in the length of
time
necessary for Roger to push forward
another chair.
***
The Haunted Bookshop
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Footnote
ADDTRACTIPLIVISION
is the copyrighted name
of a workbook I was commissioned
to write in 1986
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