> I know that you guys might sage the piss out of this but

How do you know? How is this your scheme blog?

1) You're not allowed to use this website in ways other than intended, and a "blog" is out of question.
2) The code posted is from a textbook. If we wanted that particular code bit, we'd be looking at the textbook (which is freely available too), instead of coming to this "blog".
3) There's zero original content in your post.
4) The code is incomplete.

> since it reads more like English does.

What bollocks. That's awful programming language criteria.

I'd bet my money that you're a troll. Try HtDP, Learn Scheme in fixnum days, and other textbooks listed here, http://schemers.org/Documents/#all-texts before you read SICP. (SICP is not supposed to teach scheme)