His Inner Self

“MY young friend,” said the professor, condescendingly, “have you indulged in introspective cogitation, as it were?”
“Huh!” said I.
The professor’s benign smile intensified his condescension.
“Ah, you do not understand. I thought you would not,” he replied. “But to simplify, have you not at odd moments felt, and at once fulfilled, a certain odd desire to enter into positive ratiocinative argument with the negatives of your true inward self? Ah, ah â€" as it were?”...