An Old mystery ...

Jeff Wilson · 05 Dec 2008, 22:08 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:08:11 -0600
Subject: (urth) An Old mystery ...
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John Watkins wrote:
> Roy explained it back in June.
> 
> http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-urth.net/2008-June/009108.html

His argument is well reasoned, but it rests on some fine hair splitting 
that falls below the demonstrated level of lexical resolution of 
dialogue in the Book that is translated across universes and back in 
time. "we condemned" simply can't be taken at literal face value in a 
book deliberately written to be ambiguous at every level.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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