Duke’s rug makes his floor less shiny and also less dusty-looking. Duke has a little apple and a little lemon and he enjoys carrying them around. The apple represents appleness. It represents things that are crispy and grow on trees. The lemon represents lemonness. It represents things that aren’t that necessary that grow on trees. Duke infers the existence of trees from the existence of this apple and this lemon. His logic is that the fact that the lemon and the apple exist, and the fact that apples and lemons grow on trees, prove the existence of trees. Duke has no tree in the theater. Maybe he will draw one and put it up on his wall. Arthur used to hit small apples with a tennis racket and see if he could get them all the way across the street onto the neighbor’s roof. Arthur did a lot of weird things before the end. Duke doesn’t know if they are real or not. Duke thinks he might have invented Arthur to keep him company.
From what fact does Duke infer the existence of trees?
Duke infers the existence of trees from the presence of a bird in the theater, since birds live in trees.
The presence of an apple and a lemon in the theater implies that trees exist.