He
watched below him as a station wagon passed, then a convertible. a
moving van. and a small truck advertising EUCLID'S D RY CLEANING AND
D YEING. The great name reminded him of the right-angled triangle,
the principles of gecmetric analysis. and the doctrine of proportion
for both commensurables and incommensurables. \Vhathe needed was a
new form of ratiocination, and Euclid might do. If he could make a
geometric analysis of his problems. mightn't he solve them. or at
least create an atmosphere of solution? He get a slide rule and took
the simple theorem that if two sides of a triangle are equal. the
angles opposite these sides are equal; and the converse theorem that
if two angles of a triangle are equal. the sides opposite them will
be equal. He drew a line to represent iVlalhilda and what he knew
alxlut her to be relevant. The base of the triangle would be his two
children. Randr and Priscilla. He, of course, would make up the third
side
How
is it possible that this blog has been
going on
for
seven
years without knowing about this short story? It is a very good
example to show the different
ways to use science in literature. The
text itself includes almost every wise choice and
every
typical mistake
that we have
been talking
about in this blog
In
the prologue, Rodrigo Fresán writes that William Maxwell didn´t
like this
short
story at all and that Chever wrote in
his Diaries how he sold it to anhoter magazine for 3000 dollars
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