Ch. 22 (Primarily Pgs. 150-155)
What is Pitch’s problem with the intelligence officer?
- The intelligence officer “talks too much” and is a man of only puns
Pitch says, “Ah, you are a talking man – what I call a wordy man. You talk, talk” (Pg. 151). And “But is analogy argument? You are a punster…you pun with ideas as another man may with words” (Pg. 150).
- Pitch seems to believe that the Intelligence Officer doesn’t really say anything meaningful, but rather dances around with words to sound “intelligent”
“Pun away; but even accepting your analogical pun, what does is amount to” (Pg. 151)
- Pitch believes the Intelligence Officer is more of a bs artist
Pitch says, “This knowledge of yours, which you haven’t enough knowledge to know how to make a right use of, it should be taken from you” (Pg. 152)
-Bottom line: Pitch is revealing the Intelligence Officer as a sophist instead of a rhetorician and insults him saying the Intelligence Officer knows nothing
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1 Comments:
• Pg 151- Pitch says that a butterfly is still a caterpillar, just with wings as his disguise
• This counters the Intelligence Officer when he says that people can transform into a person of opposite character
• Pg 152- “ all boys are rascals, and so are all men”
• Pitch feels that the Intelligence Officer has too much confidence in men to change; he feels they will remain the way they are
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