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"Think it might be the Fleming pistols?"
"That depends. I'll have to see whether any of the Fleming pistols turn
up anywhere in Rivers's former possession. Personally, I've about decided
that the man who was drinking with Rivers killed him. There aren't any
indications that anybody else was in the shop afterward. If that's the
case, I doubt if the killer was Walters. You know what a snobbish guy
Rivers was. And from what I know of him, he seems to have had a
thoroughly Aristotelian outlook; he identified individuals with
class-labels. Walters, of course, would be identified with the label
'butler,' and I can't imagine Rivers sitting down and drinking with a
'butler.' He would only drink with people whom he thought of as his
equals, that is, people whom he identified with class-labels of equal
social importance to his own labels of 'antiquarian' and 'businessman.'"
"That sounds like Korzybski," Pierre said, as they turned onto Route 19
in the village and headed east. "You've read _Science and Sanity_?"
Rand nodded. "Yes. I first read it in the 1933 edition, back about 1936;
I've been rereading it every couple of years since. The principles of
General Semantics come in very handy in my business, especially in
criminal-investigation work, like this.
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