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The Hobart Herald fight was between a Thought and a Sensation; those are things that ru n around loose in Psychologyland. But before I tell you about it, I must try and narrate the hardships of Unwise One in getting to the field where the fight w a s pulled off. P o o r Unwise One, he had traveled m u c h in m a n y lands but this one was the worst ever. H e had been a ll through the Kingdom of Geometry and slain horrible Tetrahedrons a n d Icosahedrons b u t this was different. It was far more excruciating. H e had a guide book by one of the W ise called Thorndike, and it told him how to pass through the land to the Field; but somehow he could n o t remember to look in the book at the right tim e. Now this country was full of Mental Facts which are queer little things that run wild there; and, they are awful to tackle, something lik e mosquitos, only you can ’t grab them or slap them because they h a v e no bodies or heads. T h e y are queer, v e ry queer little creatures. W e ll he h a d these t o contend against, to say nothing of great big brute things called Concepts and Percepts, which breed horribly fast in that land. On a ll sides as he traveled on, these Mental Facts k e p t harassing him; and quite unexpected Concepts with great paws an d Percepts with giant claws kept jumping up full grown right in th e path o f the Unwise. But the poor one had one relief; it was a nice comfortable sort of a giant called Inattention. T h is giant could assume millions of shapes an d whenever Unwise was particularly bothered with Mental Facts o r Concepts or a n y other of the brutes, Inattention would assume som e lovely shape and Unwise would forget a il about hL*troubles. I f Inattention could only have traveled with Unwise alone it would have been charming but, alas, he had a half-sister called Attention and she w a s a horrible giantess with straight black hair, false teeth and big spectacles, and her fingers were long and bony and each tim e Unwise ran aw a y with tl^e facinating Inattention this horrible giantess would reach out and bring him back to Mental Facts and Percepts and the r e s t of the unpleasant things of Psychological life. Well, I know you want t o hear about the fight so I ’ll hurry along.
