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logical circles
May. 14th, 2016 02:44 amThe day is over, the two meetings have passed, and now it is the weekend. Thank goodness.
Have just received the copy-edits for book 3. Something to get started on this weekend...
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Irene could guess the chain of logic in Qing Song’s mind at the moment. It was a logical little short-circuit which started with only someone important would dare to treat a dragon without proper respect, and continued to such a person must be worthy of a dragon’s respect, and went round in a nice little self-confirming circle. Irene was a Librarian who knew about dragons, but she treated him with a lack of proper respect. Ergo, Irene was a powerful and important Librarian who deserved Qing Song’s respect. The only problem with this logic was that it all depended on the person – namely, Irene – not being a fake in the first place. Like all good cons, it depended on the victim making a fundamental misapprehension and then building on it. And if Qing Song ever got round to questioning his first unspoken assumption that of course nobody would ever dare lie to me...
Have just received the copy-edits for book 3. Something to get started on this weekend...
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Irene could guess the chain of logic in Qing Song’s mind at the moment. It was a logical little short-circuit which started with only someone important would dare to treat a dragon without proper respect, and continued to such a person must be worthy of a dragon’s respect, and went round in a nice little self-confirming circle. Irene was a Librarian who knew about dragons, but she treated him with a lack of proper respect. Ergo, Irene was a powerful and important Librarian who deserved Qing Song’s respect. The only problem with this logic was that it all depended on the person – namely, Irene – not being a fake in the first place. Like all good cons, it depended on the victim making a fundamental misapprehension and then building on it. And if Qing Song ever got round to questioning his first unspoken assumption that of course nobody would ever dare lie to me...
