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Pariah

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"Inhale this, but do not touch."

 

"I smell nothing."

 

"What you do not smell is called iocaine powder. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man."

 

"Hmm."

 

"All right, where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right, and who is dead."

 

"But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the kind of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so i can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known that I was not a great fool--you would have counted on it--so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!"

 

"You've made your decision then?"

 

"Not remotely! Because iocaine comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you."

 

"Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."

 

"Wait till I get going."  [beat]  "Where was I?"

 

"Australia."

 

"Yes, Australia! And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me."

 

"You're just stalling now."

 

"You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could have put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you. So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!"

 

"You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work."

 

"It has worked! You've given everything away! I know where the poison is!"

 

"Then make your choice."

 

"I will! And I choose ... what in the world can that be?!"

 

"What? Where? I don't see anything."

 

"Oh, I could have sworn I saw something.  No matter."  [smirks]

 

"What's so funny?"

 

"I'll tell you in a minute. First, let's drink: me from my glass, and you from yours."  [both drink]

 

"You guessed wrong."

 

"You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses while your back was turned! Ha ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is, 'Never get involved in a land way in Asia'. But only slightly less well-know is this: Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ah ha ha ha! Ah ha ha ha! Ah ha--"  [falls over dead]

 

"Who are you?"

 

"I am no one to be trifled with. That is all you ever need know."

 

"And to think, all the time it was your cup that was poisoned."

 

"They were both poisoned. I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder."

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