School of Modern Languages LM-1246 Reading Comprehension Journal Entry and Vocabulary Log Patricia Escalante Nacira Ortiz

March 24, 2011 Niffenegger,Audrey. The Time Travelers Wife.United States Of America: Harcourt,Inc., 2003

Summary (Pages 1-47/48-107) Its October 26, 1991, Clare walks into a library and sees Henry for the first time in her present (she is twenty and hes twenty-eight.) and goes straight towards him, but he doesnt recognizes her. Even so, as she speaks of her past reunions, he ends up asking her out. She tells him how they met when she was only six years old and he was 36. Back at his place they have sex and afterwards Clare finds some belongings from another woman that Henry was probably dating, but Clare knows that she is Henrys future. Henry recalls the first time in which he time traveled, he was five years old, and it happing on the night of his birthday, he went to the Natural History Museum and he encountered his older self (he wasnt aware of this) who gives him a tour around the museum and visits the great library which he confesses that he loved. His 24 year old self tells him to keep this secret from everyone but his mother. When he appears back in his room he told his mother, who went along with his story because she thought it was just a dream. On September 23, 1977 he meets Clare for the first time, and from that day on he kept on time traveling into Clares life. On June 7, 1973, a twenty-seven year old Henry teaches a nine year old Henry how to pickpocket in order to survive while time traveling He also remembers some awkward moments during his adolescence in which he did things that other people (from his perspective) might considered sick, and also how many times he got arrested and vanished before they could find out his identity. Then he also recalls other

encounters with a younger Clare. One nigh when Clare is 13 she hears her named being called in the middle of the night and when she goes to see what happened she finds Mark (his older brother) and his father looking at something while dressed for hunting, and Henry is with them but tells her not to tell them anything and is sent back to her room by her father. One time when Clare is 16 she asks Henry about their future and he tells her that they are married but also tells her to be patient (she was filled with lust) and also on that year with Henrys help, she gets back at a guy who hurt her and Helen (her friend) meets Henry but is tricked into not following her instincts and discovering who Henry really was. Vocabulary Log (pages 1-107) Word #1: Waxwork: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 7, paragraph 2, line 5) A. B. C. D. Clare is so pale she looks like a waxwork in the candlelight. A life like model Noun Ann made a huge waxwork for his art class last semester.

Word #2: Proclivities: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 11, line 26) A. B. C. D. Unusual sex proclivities? A tendency or liking Adverb John has developed some proclivities toward his writing.

Word #3: Gobble (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 16, line 25) A. B. C. D. It seems like a shame to just gobble everything up all at once. To eat something hurriedly and noisily. Verb The child at the park seemed to be gobbling down his hot dog.

Word #4:

Spindled: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 20, line 9) A. B. C. D. Yes. I look like Ive been spindled and mutilated. A pin or axis on which something else turns. Adjective The light poles were spindled after the tornado went through.

Word #5: Gauche: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 20, line 12) A. B. C. D. So right now youre telling me that Im somewhat gauche. Tactless and awkward Adjective I felt somewhat gauche during the meeting last week.

Word #6: Somber: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 20, line 16) A. B. C. D. Henry is somber. Sad and serious, grave. Adjective Cesar couldnt help feeing somber as he saw the coffin been buried at his feet during the ceremony.

Word #7: Forlorn: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 50, paragraph 1, line 22) A. B. C. D. She has picked up her boy and is just staring back at the sunlight forlorn. Pathetically unhappy or alone/deserted, forsaken Adjective Everyone in her family remembered her forlorn expression as she stared into the empty cradle.

Word #8: Scrutinize: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 66, line 22) A. B. C. D. I scrutinize Clare. To examine closely Verb The teacher scrutinized very closely the paper that mark had just turned in.

Word #9:

Determinism: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 76, line6 ) A. Whats the opposite of determinism? B. The philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and
decision is the inevitable consequence. C. Noun D. The economic determinism states that the evolution of societies is inevitably govern by the economic aspects.

Word #10: Cicadas: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 91, line 1) A. B. C. D. The cicadas sing with all their might. An insect Subject The swamp was swarming with cicadas.

School of Modern Languages LM-1246 Reading Comprehension Journal Entry and Vocabulary Log Patricia Escalante Nacira Ortiz March 24, 2011 Niffenegger,Audrey. The Time Travelers Wife.United States Of America: Harcourt,Inc., 2003

Summary (Pages 108-162/163-227) Henry appears on Clares basement, its December 24 of 1988, as he finds himself alone, he starts recalling her mother, different moments which he spent with her and his father, and the fact that this specific date is the nineteenth anniversary of her death. Then Clare comes in and asks him why he looks so sad, Henry tells her the story of the car accident in which her mother died and how time traveling saved his life during the crash and also that due to time traveling, he has relived the accident many times, from every angle. Also on that same date (December 1988) a 25 year old Henry is getting hammered and ends in the hospital. On April of 1989 Clare is 17 and introduces Henry to her grandmother (shes blind) who warns her that he could be a demon, which Clare denies and then tells her the truth about Henry. On November 30 of 1991, Henry is 28 and Clare is 20, theyre in the present, she takes him to her apartment where he meets her friends, Charisse and Gomez, the last one tries to advise Clare about Henry telling her to be careful. On December 14 of 1991 a time traveling Henry meets Gomez, while he was hitting a friend of Gomezs who offended him. After this Gomezs asks for the truth and Henry tells him for he knows that in the future Gomez will help him by knowing all that, so he gives him some proves and then disappears. The day after Gomez speaks about it with Clare but still warns her not to marry Henry. On December 22 she meets Ingrid (Henrys ex-girlfiend) and Cecilia, at the place where she was with Henry and they counsel her about him and then a

future Henry comes and sooths her, tells her to help him become the man that she knows and loves. Some days after that, Clare takes Henry to meet his family, there he meets Mark, her father, Alice (her little sister), her mother and Sharon, who is Marks girlfriend and is pregnant. During dinner Clares parents are surprised to find out who Henrys mother was because they knew her work and adored her. Also during dinner Clares mother has an episode in which she starts crying due to the fact that she believes that Sharons pregnancy will ruins Marks life. Alice seems to get along pretty well with Henry and tells Clare of a time in which she found a men that looked just like Henry, naked on their basement and who knew her name, to this Clare laughs and tells her that she must be crazy (knowing obviously that she was right). There is a moment when Alice tells them to watch TV, and Clare remembers that Henry cant watch TV because the color and movements and all those elements make him time travel. Overall, the family ended liking Henry (even thought at church during mass, he disappeared for a little while, because he accidentally time traveled but managed to come back). Vocabulary Log #2 Word #1: Larks: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 109, paragraph 2, line 9) A. B. C. D. They are happy as larks; they shine with their luck, their joy. A joke or piece of fun. Adverb The poet could only compare their joy to larks as he watched them swing in the park.

Word #2: Loafers: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 109, paragraph 3, line 5) A. She wears a cloth coat and loafers with Capri pants. B. A trademark used for a low leather step-in shoe with an upper resembling a moccasin but
with a broad, flat heel. C. Noun D. She had to buy new loafers since the old ones had worn out.

Word #3: Demeanor: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 111, line 8) A. B. C. D. Whats wrong?Clare takes in the untouched food, my uncheerful demeanor. Manner, bearing Adverb The demeanor in which he spoke made everyone rather uncomfortable for the rest of the evening.

Word #4: Aftermath: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 114, line 26) A. B. C. D. I have seen it from every angle; I am even participant in the aftermath. Circumstances that follow as a result of something else. Adverb The aftermath showed nothing but death and a god forsaken land.

Word #5: Tonsillectomy: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 121, line 1) A. Just call your parents and tell them that Rafe is having a tonsillectomy or something. B. Surgical removal of tonsils or a tonsil. C. Noun D. Ralph had to stay in bed for 5 weeks after his tonsillectomy. Word #6: Crestfallen: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 139, paragraph 1, line 1) A. He looks crestfallen. B. Dispirited and depressed. C. Adjective

D. The student was sent to the psiquiatrist after his teacher noticed how crestfallen hed been looking on the last couple of weeks. Word #7: Knack: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 139, paragraph 2, line 1) A. B. C. D. Its a knack, I reply modestly. A skill gained through practice. Noun Breaking an entry can be considered as a knack by some people.

Word #8: Ravenous: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 139, paragraph 4, line 1) A. B. C. D. Im ravenous. Lets go to Ann Sathers. Extremely hungry or greedy. Adverb After been locked without food for 2 days, the neighbors dog was ravenous.

Word #9: Infallibity: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 147, line 10) A. B. C. D. I never heard Gomez admit to anything less than papal infallibility.
Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain. Noun They presented infallible evidence on their case at the court.

Word #10: Inebration: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 120, line 31) A. Any other night of the year-look, my goal tonight is to achieve a level on inebriation at which I can barely stand up, much less get it up. B. State of ebriation C. Adverb D. Andrew was so inebriated that he had to be rushed to the hospital.

School of Modern Languages LM-1246 Reading Comprehension Journal Entry and Vocabulary Log Patricia Escalante Nacira Ortiz March 24, 2011 Niffenegger,Audrey. The Time Travelers Wife.United States Of America: Harcourt,Inc., 2003

Summary (Pages 228-280/281-342) Its Clares twenty-first birthday and she is with Henry at his apartment, they talk about reducing a little their sexual life, about Henrys time travel during Thanksgiving into the Christmas were he tells Clare bout the accident. They also talk about the time when Clare is hoping to lose her virginity when she was sixteen and so she hides Henrys cloths but he still refuses to do it yet. That night on her 21st birthday, Henry proposes to Clare and she accepts. A week later Henry takes her to meet his father, there she also meets Kim (a Korean women who practically raised Henry after her mom passed away) who treats her as family. She also meets Mr. De Tamble, his fiances father, and the four of them talk about various topics and at the end they end up loving Clare. On June 10, 1992 Clare meets Celia once again, and she takes Clare in where Ingrid was waiting,thus creating a scene and then Ingrid leaves and so does Clare. On September of 1993 Henry is looking for something that might prevent him from time traveling during his wedding and tells Clare that antipsychotics might help, and meets up with Gomez while waiting for Ben, a friend who might be able to help him by preparing a special drug. After he sees Ben and takes what he gave him, Gomez was waiting outside and takes him home, then some weeks after that when he was home he had a reaction to the new drug that he told Ben to make for him and ends up at the hospital, where Clare forgives Ben but asks him not to give anymore drugs to Henry.

The day before the wedding Henry has a haircut, and now resembles more to the Henry that Clare had known while time traveling. The day of the wedding was raining but even so Henry went for a walk so that he would concentrate on something else rather than time traveling, then Clare meets up with him and have sex hoping that it might help. Unfortunely before the wedding he time travels but luckily another Henry does that as well and time travels to that moment and marries Clare, then gives his friends instructions as to where to find him and to bring him his cloths, and also tells Ben (who has AIDS) that hes still alive in 2002. The next day Clare and Henry get married in the city hall, following their plan B in case that something might happen during the ceremony, which it did. After a while Henry buys a winning lottery ticket even though at first Clare disagrees, but then they use it to buy a house that Henry had already seen on the future. One day while playing with Gomez and Charisse, another Henry randomly appears bleeding and cut on the kitchen and then disappears. Henry starts looking for his future doctor, Dr. Kendrick, and after giving him some proves like predicting his sons birth and genetic disorder, and disappearing in the middle of the street, gets him to help him with time traveling and also thanks to Clare who told him of his future daughter. Vocabulary # 3 Word #1: Upholstery: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 235, paragraph 2, line 3) A. The upholstery is protected with clear plastic, and there are vinyl runners over the white carpet. B. The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer. C. Subject D. The upholstery has just been rebuilt in order to store all the supplies during winter. Word #2:

Meekly: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 229, paragraph, line 3 A. B. C. D. And you will meekly cease and desist?
Showing patience and humility; gente. Adverb Marie was very meekly while accepting her award.

Word #3: Don: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 228, paragraph 1, line 3 A. B. C. D. As I don his bathrobe and head for the bathroom I hear him swearing at the blender. To put on. Verb After Joey had don his shirt he went looking for his pants.

Word #4: Hoarse: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 234, line 26) A. B. C. D. His voice is hoarse and amused. Voice rough and croaking. Adverb His voiced sounded rather hoarse as he spoke in front of the jury.

Word #5: Peonies: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 236, line 5) A. I admired the peonies. B. Known as the flower of riches and honor. With their lush, full, rounded bloom, peonies
symbolize romance and prosperity.

C. noun D. Ron gave some peonies to her girlfriend on Valentines Day. Word #6: Molasses: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 242, line23) A. B. C. D. It is black and dense as molasses. A thick brown syrup produced during the refining of sugar. Noun Timmy was astonished staring at the molasses at the sugar factory.

Word #7: Coerced: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 245, line 12) A. I was coerced. Im leaving now.

B. To force or compel, using threats. C. Verb D. The suspect claimed to have been coerced into killing the cop. Word #8: Perusing: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 247, line 1) A. B. C. D. Henry is perusing his dog-eared copy of the Physicians Desk Reference.
To read or examine, typically with great care.

Verb The doctor was perusing through the patients history charts.

Word #9: Jaundiced: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 254, line 6) A. In the dim light of this cold room he seems old, jaundiced, paper-skinned. B. Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by
deposition of bile salts in these tissues. C. Adjective D. The patience seemed jaundiced, thin and pale as he was lying in his bed at the hospital.

Word #10: Shrubbery: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 273, line 21) A. Theres a noise in the shrubbery. B. A woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems arising from the base and
lacking a single trunk; a bush.

C. Noun D. All the bunnies in the forest where hiding behind the shrubbery .

School of Modern Languages LM-1246 Reading Comprehension Journal Entry and Vocabulary Log Patricia Escalante Nacira Ortiz March 24, 2011 Niffenegger,Audrey. The Time Travelers Wife.United States Of America: Harcourt,Inc., 2003

Summary (Pages 343-395/396-456) Gomez and Charisse just had their third child, and as Henry sees Clare holding the baby, he wonders where their babies have gone (Clare has had 3 miscarriages), he says to himself Where are they, these lost children, wandering, hovering around confused? . On July 21 1999 Henry and Clare fight over

adopting a child and Henry goes out for a drive and while on a bridge he disappears and appears on Kims kitchen where she tells him of her daughter who died due to leukemia.As he is there, Clare is being interrogated when she goes to the bridge, because people tell her that his husband jumped and is probably dead, suddenly he appears and tells them that he went for a swim and makes up with Clare. Some days later they go to see Dr. Kendrick who shows them the mice that have been altered to time traveled and gives them a possible way to stop her miscarriages. On may 11 of 2000 Clare meets with an older Henry and tells him that after five miscarriages she is ready to give up, but he tells her not to and that in the future they will have a child. On June of that same year Henry tells her that they will stop trying to have a baby because she could die, and then secretly goes to have a vasectomy but is so nervous that he time travels. He appears in the meadow with a younger Clare but refuses to tell he whats wrong and kisses her for the first time. When he goes back to the present he tells Clare and they make love once again and she gets pregnant and afterwards he has a vasectomy. She starts having strange dreams about babies

and has another miscarriage. Some days later a younger Henry appears in the middle of the night and gets Clare pregnant once again. Then on another time traveling he meets her daughter, her name is Alba, she tells him that he died when she was five and that she also time travels, and he discovers that on the future that is not that unsual, and that it is known as CDP. He tells Clare all of these. On the day of Albas birth Henry time travels for five minutes then comes back..They ask Henrys father (who was a famous violinist) to teach Alba and he happily accepts the role. One day Henry disappears during Clares exposition, leaving Alba but his grandfather found her, then another day he just appears covered in blood and Clare and him worry about what might happen. One day he time travels to the first time he slept with Clare when she was 18.She confesses that she had slept once with Gomez many years ago and he forgives her because they hadnt met yet in the present. Another day an older Alba travels in time and meets them, but Henry asks her no to tell them about his death.

Vocabulary Log #4 Word #1: Cupping: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 349, paragraph 4, line 1) A. Now I lie pressed against Clare, my hand cupping her right breast and I try to discern if we are on this together or if I have been somehow left behind. B. The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a
partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. C. Verb

D. The doctor was cupping the womans breast in order to feel any abnormality during the examination.

Word #2: Acquiesce: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 351, line 23) A. B. C. D. And I am ready to acquiesce.
To consent or comply passively or without protest. Verb The accused acquiesce with the jurys decision.

Word #3: Plugging: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 351, line 28) A. No future self has encouraged me to keep plugging away of this. B. An object, such as a cork or a wad of cloth, used to fill a hole tightly; a stopper, a
dense mass of material that obstructs a passage.

C. Verb D. The plomer spent all morning plugging the sewer. Word #4: Shrugged: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 351, line 31) A. B. C. D. My self only smiled and shrugged.
To raise (the shoulders), especially as a gesture of doubt, disdain, or indifference.

Verb The little boy only shrugged as he was being yelled by his mother.

Word #5: Groveling: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 352, paragraph 2, line 6) A. B. C. D. Id be groveling on my knees within days.
To behave in a servile or demeaning manner; cringe. Verb Slaves were forced to grovel since the time they were born.

Word #6: Prods: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 352, line 23) A. B. C. D. She prods me with her foot.
To poke or jab with or as if with a pointed object, to rouse or urge to action verb He prods her mother whenever he gets bored at the ceremony.

Word #7: Cloth: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 358, paragraph 4, line 19)

A. On the cart is a cage covered with a cloth. B. Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic
fibers.

C. Noun D. My father always covers the printer with a piece of cloth to protect it from dust. Word #8: Dams: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 360, line 1) A. The hard part was getting the dams, the mother mice to carry the altered mice to term. B. To bring about the failure of; ruin. C. Noun D. The dams kept delaying the result on the experiment over and over again. Word #9: Rummages: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 364, line 14) A. B. C. D. He looks up at me defiantly as he rummages in the freezer.
To search thoroughly by handling, turning over, or disarranging the contents of. Verb He rumanged through the baggage while looking for his wallet.

Word #10: Displaced: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 389, line 10) A. Whats a CDP? Chrono-Displaced-Person. B. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a
homeland.

C. Adverb D. He has felt displaced for almost his entire life, that could probably be the reason of his solitude.

School of Modern Languages LM-1246 Reading Comprehension Journal Entry and Vocabulary Log Patricia Escalante Nacira Ortiz March 24, 2011 Niffenegger,Audrey. The Time Travelers Wife.United States Of America: Harcourt,Inc., 2003

Summary ( 457-497/498-536) Henry (a time traveling one) appears inside of the cage at Newberry (where he works) and then has to tell his friends the truth, then the present Henry comes along and the other one inside the cage disappears and so when his friends see this, they just cope with it. On july 2006 Kendrick tells Henry that there is nothing more that he can do about his genes and time traveling, and that maybe he could help Alba because she is younger, so Henry takes her for a blood sample even though Clare was against it and the convinces Clare to allow him this. One night he time travels to the day in which he dies by being shot in the meadow and he tells Clare (a past Clare) no to say a word (knowing the other Henry is dying somewhere out there). On January 7, 2006 he time travels to an unfamiliar place and calls himself to help him, but when he travels back, its too late, he caught hypothermia, Clare finds him and takes him to the hospital and has his feet amputated. When they take him home it seems as though he has lost his will to live, Alba tells him that the other Alba told her that he would die, but he tells her that that wont happen until the future. Clare makes a sculpture of a terrible angel for Henry (maybe as a way to project what she felt and the whole situation itself). Kim goes over there and pushes Henry to get out of bed and helps him out. When Clare shows him the

sculpture he regains some of his old self. He starts having nightmares related to his feet and teaches Clare how to cook. One night he time travels to Ingrids apartment where they have a talk and she helps him with painkillers, but even thought he tries to stop her, she kills herself and he time travels back and tells Clare about it, and also about the fact that he has already arranged things in case of his death. On December 31 they are having a party, Henry quietly says goodbye and thanks the friends who really knew and helped him, then says goodbye to Clare (confesses to her that one day when she is old, he will meet her one last time) and as they lie on the snow he travels back in time and is shot on the meadow ,then appears back at the house and vanishes. After that Alba also time travels and constantly time travels with his father, but he cant see Clare. One day Clare founds a letter that he had written before his death for her and that helps her go on. Sometime after that she almost had sex with Gomez but then feels guilty and decides to wait for Henry. Many decades later on a day just like any other, a time traveling Henry finds her and they were able to meet again one last time. Vocabulary log #5 Word #01: Possum: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 458, paragraph 1, line 9) A. I am curled up on the floor paying possum. B. Nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North
America to northern South America.

C. Noun

D. The teacher took the kids to the zoo and spoke about different mammals such as the
possum.

Word #02: Grunting: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 458, line 23) A. B. C. D. His shoes squeak and he makes a soft grunting noise.
A deep guttural sound, as a hog does. Verb The wolf kept grunting as he saw the hunter draw closer and closer in every step.

Word #03: Croons: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 459, line 11) A. B. C. D. Good morning Mr. De Tamble Roy croons.
To sing popular songs in a soft, sentimental manner. Verb He could remember her mother crooning each night at his side the same lullaby until he fell asleep.

Word #04: Knapsack: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 461, line 11) A. I set my knapsack on my desk and stare at him. B. A bag made of sturdy material and furnished with shoulder straps, designed for carrying
articles such as camping supplies on the back.

C. Noun D. The messenger boy had a brown knapsack on his back. Word #05: Quantum: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 462, line 31) A. I explained about causal loops, quantum mechanics and photons and the speed of light. B. The smallest amount of a physical quantity that can exist independently, especially a
discrete quantity of electromagnetic radiation.

C. Noun D. The physics exam was incredibly hard, especially the part in which we had to answer
questions related to quantum mechanics.

Word #06: Sedately: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 466, paragraph 1, line 2) A. Henry following more sedately.

B. Serenely deliberate, composed, and dignified in character or manner. C. Adverb D. The puppy followed sedately his master after he had been apprehended. Word #07: Twirling: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 466, line 10) A. B. C. D. Alba is twirling around, and Henry reaches to stop her.
To rotate or revolve briskly; swing in a circle; spin. Verb His nephew threw up because he had been twirling around the garden for hours.

Word #08: Basin: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 474, line 5) A. B. C. D. Sue is carrying a large basin and a thermometer and a bucket.
An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids. Noun The hospital had a closet filled with basins for the patients.

Word #09: Pejorative: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 480, line 12) A. B. C. D. Its a highly pejorative word we use to describe cripples.
Tending to make or become worse. Adjective The doctor told his family that he was in a very pejorative situation.

Word #10: Fallacy: (From The Time Travelers Wife, page 496, line 30) A. B. C. D. Oh, its the old coffee-equals morning fallacy, Henry says. A false notion, a statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference. Noun The professor told the student that his theory was nothing more than a fallacy, he had nothing to back it up.