[Dimitri's laughter is clearly fake, the dryness so blatant that the attempt itself is a joke. He sighs, a strange sort of smile still tinging his voice;]
It's a logic concept that has been used over and over, to varying degrees of accuracy. In this case, I refer to the idea of guessing what is in a closed box. [He points to her picnic basket without moving to look at it himself;] If I told you there was a cat in that basket, Fauna, and let's pretend you would ever believe a word that I say...
Without looking inside. Would you tell me that it is a dead cat or alive?
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[Dimitri's laughter is clearly fake, the dryness so blatant that the attempt itself is a joke. He sighs, a strange sort of smile still tinging his voice;]
It's a logic concept that has been used over and over, to varying degrees of accuracy. In this case, I refer to the idea of guessing what is in a closed box. [He points to her picnic basket without moving to look at it himself;] If I told you there was a cat in that basket, Fauna, and let's pretend you would ever believe a word that I say...
Without looking inside. Would you tell me that it is a dead cat or alive?