Hyacinth

António Pedro Marques · 03 Nov 2011, 22:39 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:39:05 +0000
Subject: (urth) Hyacinth
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David Stockhoff wrote (03-11-2011 22:13):
> On 11/3/2011 5:40 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
>>
>> In matters of opinion, you have showed no problems in asserting stuff
>> without qualification. In a matter of fact such as this, you take care to
>> place such caveats. How is the unwary reader to know what is established
>> and what is conjecture?
>> You should moderate your temper, btw.
>
> JAMES should?

Whoever is unable to maintain civil language, whoever can't face a question 
without snapping, should.

> Never mind---I don't follow it anyway. If you guys have an old argument to
> revive, well ... you know.

I have no argument here. I was puzzled first by James apparently not 
remembering Hy-as-Fava having been discussed at painful length not so long 
ago, then by his apparent uncertainty as to Pig's language. Should Gene 
Wolfe have done something like that in one of his books, it would constitute 
'clues' to some mystery.

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