Cool was I and logical...My brain was as powerful as a
dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as
a scalpel. And-think of it!-I was only eighteen.
It is not often that one young has such a giant intellect.
Take, for example, Petey Burch, my roommate at the
University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but
dump as an ox. A nice enough fellow, you understand, but
nothing upstairs...
One afternoon I found Peter lying on his bed with an
expression of such distress on his face that I immediately
diagnosed appendicitis.