I can’t find a direct link to a strip, just an indirect mention, but there was a running joke in a few weeks’ worth of Peanuts comics where Lucy would give Linus an absurd explanation for a natural phenomenon, and Charlie Brown’s stomach would start to hurt. So you’re generalizing from at least a considerable subset, not just one example.
For me, it’s a feeling like I’m about to be hit in the stomach. If you’ve ever observed your internal reactions while doing full-contact sparring, you’ve probably noticed the patterns of tension that arise from hits and threats of hits. That’s what someone relying on a really bad chain of logic feels like to me.
The scary possibility is that my reaction may have been influenced by the comic strips. I had collections of them in books when I was a kid, and I read them again and again.
I can’t find a direct link to a strip, just an indirect mention, but there was a running joke in a few weeks’ worth of Peanuts comics where Lucy would give Linus an absurd explanation for a natural phenomenon, and Charlie Brown’s stomach would start to hurt. So you’re generalizing from at least a considerable subset, not just one example.
For me, it’s a feeling like I’m about to be hit in the stomach. If you’ve ever observed your internal reactions while doing full-contact sparring, you’ve probably noticed the patterns of tension that arise from hits and threats of hits. That’s what someone relying on a really bad chain of logic feels like to me.
The scary possibility is that my reaction may have been influenced by the comic strips. I had collections of them in books when I was a kid, and I read them again and again.