July 21, 2009

• Rumination

  “So,” began the first sleuth, ”what we need to figure out is what the murderer would do after the murder was done.”
  “That seems a bit hard,” the second sleuth replied, “What we could do instead is figure out what he would not do, because then everyone who does those things we know is not the murderer.”
  “Brilliant!  So let’s see . . . well, assuming that his only goal was not just to murder, we can probably safely assume that he would not do nothing.”
  “Excellent point,” the second sleuth affirmed, “So now we need to find the people who do nothing.”
  “Well, what would a person who does nothing do?”
  “Hmmmm, hmmmm, you raise a very interesting question,” the second sleuth thought aloud, “They definitely wouldn’t do something.“
  “True, very true.” 
  “Would they do anything?”
  “I don’t think so.”
  “Hmmmm. This could be more difficult than we expected.”
  A long silence followed. 

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