Love is a Fallacy
[American] Max Shulma
Main Characters
Dobie Gillis -------------- Luo Xiaodong
Petey Burch------------- Zhang Minan
Polly Espy-------------- Wu Jiayuan
Setting
Campus of a Law School
The First Scene Dormitory
One afternoon Polly found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that he immediately diagnod appendicitis.
D: “Don’t move”, “Don’t take a laxative. I’ll get a doctor.”
Pe:“Raccoon,”( he mumbled thickly.)
D:“Raccoon?” (pausing in my flight).
Pe:“I want a raccoon coat,”( he wailed.)
D: “Why do you want a raccoon coat?”
Pe:“I should have known it,” (he cried, pounding his temples.) “I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came back. Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can’t get a raccoon coat.”
残虹剑
D:“Can you mean that people are actually wearing raccoon coats again?”
Pe:“All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?”
D:“In the library,”
(He leaped from the bed and paced the room.) “I’ve got to have a raccoon coat,” (he said passionately客家小吃). “I’ve got to!”
D:“Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smell bad. They weigh too much. They’re unsightly. They—”
Pe:“You don’t understand,”( he interrupted impatiently). “It’s the thing to do. Don’t you want to be in the swim?”
D:“No,”
Pe:“Well, I do”, “I’d give anything for a raccoon coat. Anything!”
D: “Anything?”(looking at him narrowly.)
Pe:“Anything,” (affirmed in ringing tones.)
D:“Petey,” “are you in love with Polly Espy?”
Pe:“I think she’s a keen kid,” “but I don’t know if you’d call it love. Why?”
D:“Do you,” “have any kind of formal arrangement with her? I mean are you going steady or anything like that?”
Pe:“No. We e each other quite a bit, but we both have other dates. Why?”
D:“Is there any other man for whom she has a particular fondness?”
Pe:“Not that I know of. Why?”
D:(I nodded with satisfaction.) “In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?”
Pe:“I guess so. What are you getting at?”
D:“Nothing , nothing,”( said innocently and took my suitca out the clot.)
Pe:“Where are you going?”
D:“Home or weekend.” ( threw a few things into the bag.)
Pe:“Listen,” (clutching my arm eagerly,) “while you’re home, you couldn’t get some money from your old man, could you, and lend it to me so I can buy a raccoon coat?”
D:“I may do better than that,”( with a mysterious wink and clod my bag and left.)
Dobie got back Monday morning阿拉伯符号
D:“Look,” ( threw open the suitca）
Pe:“Holy Toledo!” (He plunged his hands into the raccoon coat and then his face.) “Holy Toledo!” (repeated )
D:“Would you like it?”
郑州的美食
Pe:“Oh yes!”( clutching the greasy pelt to him. Then a canny look came into his eyes.) “What do you want for it?”
D:“Your girl.”
Pe:“Polly?” ( said in a horrified whisper.) “You want Polly?”
D:“That’s right.”
Pe:(He flung the coat from him. )“Never,”( stoutly.)
D:( shrugged. )“Okay. If you don’t want to be in the swim, I guess it’s your business.”
( Dobie sat down in a chair and pretended to read a book, but out of the corner of his eye he kept watching Petey. 饱和点Petey初中绘画 was a torn man. First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. Then he turned away and t his jaw resolutely. Then he looked back at the coat, with even more longing in his face. Then he turned away, but with not so much resolution this time. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. Finally he didn’t turn away at all; he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat.)
Pe:“It isn’t as though I was in love with Polly,” “Or going steady or anything like that.”
D:“That’s right,”
Pe:“What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?”
D:“Not a thing,”
Pe:“It’s just been a casual kick—just a few laughs, that’s all.”
岁月缝花D:“Try on the coat,”
(He complied. The coat bunched high over his ears and dropped all the way down to his shoe tops. He looked like a mound of dead raccoons. )
Pe:“Fits fine,”
D爱的无辜:(ro from my chair.) “Is it a deal?”( extending my hand.)
Pe:( swallowed.) “It’s a deal,” ( shook my hand.)
The Second Scene Knoll
Polly was a beautiful、charming and gracious girl with erectness of carriage, an ea of bearing and exquisite table manners. However, she was not intelligent. So Dobie decided
to give Polly logic lessons in order to make her learn to think. Thus, Polly would be a perfect wife for him.
