Thus he turned the tenets and jargon of psychology back on me.
"What's to prevent your inventing it right here in solitary ?" was his next hypothesis.

"Didn't Ed invent the knuckle-talk?
And ain't you and me improving on it right along?
I got you, bo.

You invented it.

Say, get it patented.

I remember when I was night-messenger some guy invented a fool thing called Pigs in Clover and made millions out of it." "There's no patenting this," I replied.