“Then I deny them both,” he said. “I deny them utterly. I deny them to the utmost limit of my capacity,”
“But by denying one,” I said, “you affirm the other, and by denying the other you affirm the first.”
“Then I deny neither,” he said. “I deny neither of them. I deny neither of them to my last breath.”
“Then you affirm both?” I asked.
“Absolutely and entirely,” he said, “to the remotest follicle of my manhood.”
“But that leaves us,” I said, “just as we were.”
“Very likely,” he replied. “I don’t know.”
“But I don’t understand,” I said.
“Nor do I,” he said.
We stood staring at one another in silence.