3472. At that time the economy was booming, and Pop would just get
another job. Once it was plumbing supplies, and so I learned how to plumb, then
it was roofing supplies, and we would be up on a roof someplace seeing how
copper flashing was nailed down, and how the nails are always hidden by the
flaps of the tar paper.
3473. That was Bluto’s explanation of how he happened to know how to do
so many things. I had my doubts however. I watched my mother thread a needle
one time, and after than I knew how to thread a needle. I watched a boy on my
class playing the violin, and it looked so easy that I tried but it turned out
to be much more difficult than it looked.
3474. None of that mattered however, the more serious question was this:
If Bluto was so smart that he could learn numerous skills by accident, was that
proof positive that all his theories and ideas had to be correct?
3475. If a person is a master of one thing, can he automatically assume some
indirect mastery of all things? Is the mastery of an art composed of certain inevitable
steps so that the procedure is predetermined?
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