were like proper names, serving just to pick out individual things, we would not be able to form grammatical sentences in the first place. Meaning and understanding Not many people know that, in 1931, Adolf Hitler made a visit to the United States, in the course of which he did some sightseeing, had a brief affair with a lady named Maxine in Keokuk, Iowa, tried peyote (which caused him to hal- lucinate hordes of frogs and toads wearing little boots and singing the Horst Wessel Lied), infiltrated a munitions plant near Detroit, met secretly with Vice-President Curtis regarding sealskin futures, and invented the electric can opener. There is a good reason why not many people know all that: none of it is true. But the remarkable thing is that just now, as you read through my opening sentence--let us call it sentence (1)--you understood it perfectly, whether or not you were ready to accept it, and you did so without the slight- est conscious effort. Remarkable, I said
" Now Good Cop begins to speak directly to the suspect, calling him by his first name and pointing out any positive details of the case. "I'll tell you, Kenny, you're sIn truth, little in the way of combat takes place when the salesman enters the manager's office under such circumstances. Often, because the salesman knows exactly the price below which he cannot go, he and the boss don't even speak. In one car dealership I infiltrated while researching this book, it was common for a salesman to have a soft drink or cigarette in silence while the boss continued working. After a seemly time, the salesman would loosen his tie and return to his customers, looking weary but carrying the deal he had just "hammered out" for them-the same deal he had in mind be- fore entering the boss' office. CONDITIONING AND ASSOCIATION lucky that nobody was hurt and you weren't armed
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