Inconceivable! What Poison is Living in Your Heart?
Ah, the battle of wits between Westley and Vizzini. If you don’t know what this is, stop reading and go watch “The Princess Bride” right now. At this point in the movie, the hero, Westley, challenges Vizzini to a battle of wits. He presents Vizzini with some iocane powder which is supposed to be an odorless, tasteless, and extremely deadly poison. Vizzini tries to figure out which goblet has the poison; would Westley put the poison in the glass next to him or the one in front of Vizzini? After Vizzini makes his choice and picks one with poison in it, Westley reveals to Buttercup that Vizzini would have died either way because he put poison in both cups. Westley had successfully built up immunity by slowly drinking a little poison at a time over several years. Now, from a medical perspective… that don’t work. You can’t build up immunity to poison. If he had really been taking small doses of poison for years he would have either already died or he would be frail and …