In this passage, Ionesco creates a parallel conversation between Berenger and his friend Jean, and the Logician and an old gentleman in a bar where the first two discuss Berenger's life and the second discusses a syllogism. This passage serves to exemplify how logic can be distorted, absurd, and inexplicable beyond human rationality. With this passage, Ionesco goes far beyond the literary realm and into the world, commenting on the brutalities of fascism that can take hold of human emotions through simple misunderstood “logic.” It does this by creating a parallel conversation between two separate parties discussing two separate topics. Both, however, use circular reasoning and get nowhere: Ionesco takes advantage of this to demonstrate the absurdity of logic. Furthermore, both characters use logic against themselves in their arguments, showing its fragile and inconsistent nature. At the end of the passage, Ionesco demonstrates the irrationality of logic regarding human emotions and their ability to be completely abused and misunderstood by others. Parallel conversations create a back and forth...