Logician scene from the Grail album Good evening. The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies, that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms, of the type so often committed by my wife. "All wood burns," states Sir Bedivere, therefore he concludes all that burns is wood. This is, of course, pure BOOLSHIT. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted, all of Elmer Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Elmer Cogan. Obvious, one would think. However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of conversion of apropositions. Consequently, she does not understand me; for, how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder. For example, given the premise all fish live underwater, and all mackerel are fish, my wife will conclude not that all mackerel live underwater, but if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her anymore. This she calls using her intuition. I call it crap, and it gets me very irritated, because it is not logical. "There will be no supper tonight," she will sometimes cry, upon my return home. "Why not," I will ask. "Because I have been screwing the milkman all day," she will say, quite oblivious to the howling error she has made. "But," I will wearily point out, "even given that the activities of screwing the milkman and getting supper are mutually exclusive now that the screwing is over, surely, then, supper may now logically be got. "You don't love me anymore," she will now often postulate. "If you did, you would give me one now and again, so that I would not have to rely on that rancid Pakistani for my orgasms." "I will give you one, after you have got me my supper," I now usually scream, "but not before," as you understand, making her bang contingent on the arrival of my supper. "God, you turn me on when you're angry, you ancient brute," she now mysteriously deduces, forcing her sweetly throbbing tongue down my throat. "Fuck supper," I now invariably conclude, throwing logic somewhat joyously to the four winds. And so, we thrash about on our milk-stained floor, transported by animal passion, until we sink back, exhausted, onto the cartons of yogurt. I'm afraid I seemed to have strayed somewhat from my original brief, but in a nutshell, sex is more fun than logic. One cannot prove this, but it is, in the same sense that Mount Everest is, or that Elmer Cogan isn't. Good night.