do the Hierogrammates care about the megatherians?

António Pedro Marques · 23 May 2011, 22:14 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_Pedro_Marques?=)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:14:38 +0100
Subject: (urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?
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James Wynn wrote:
>> pinlighter wrote:
>>> Um, has it been mentioned that " Mowgli" is supposed to mean "frog"??
>>
>> Nobody denied that there are elements of the Book of the Jungle in the
>> story; the question is whether they're anything more than scenic.
>
> Confirmation bias.
> It doesn't fit with what I expected, therefore it is invisible.

What is invisible? The near 1:1 correspondence with Romulus's story to you, 
because you don't want it to be the single most important part of it, 
because it wasn't what you expected, so you have to downplay it as just a 
minor component?

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