A consciousness of abstracting,
a realization that we can only know something about a thin film of events
on the surface of any given situation, and a habit of thinking
structurally and of individual things, instead of verbally and of
categories, saves a lot of blind-alley chasing. And they suggest a
great many more avenues of investigation than would be evident to one
whose thinking is limited by intensional, verbal, categories."
"Yes. I find General Semantics helpful in my work, too," Pierre said. "I
can use it in plotting a story.... Oh-oh!"
"The Gentlemen of the Press," Rand said, looking ahead as the car
approached the Rivers house and shop. "There hasn't been a good,
sensational, murder story for some time; this is a gift from the gods."
A swarm of cars were parked in front and beside the red-brick house.
Among them, Rand spotted a gold-lettered green sedan of the New Belfast
_Dispatch_ and _Evening Express_, a black coupe bearing the blazonry of
the New Belfast _Mercury_, cars from a couple of papers at Louisburg, the
state capital, and cars from papers as far distant as Pittsburgh,
Buffalo, and Cincinnati. In front of the shop, a motley assemblage of
journalists was interviewing and photographing an undersized runt in
a tan Chesterfield topcoat and a gray Homburg hat, whom they were
addressing as Mr.
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