Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can’t get a raccoon coat.” “I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came back. “I should have known it,” he cried, pounding his temples. I perceived that his trouble was not physical, but mental. One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it–this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ok. Take, for example, Petey Bellows, my roommate at the university. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute, and astute–I was all of these.
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