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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   calvin wrote:   
      
   > On Jun 27, 6:43 pm, Troels Forchhammer    
   > wrote:   
   >> Morgoth's Curse  spoke these   
   >> staves:   
   >> > ...   
   >> > You neglected to mention which was your favorite tale! ;-)   
   >>   
   >> There is so much to choose from, but on the whole I think it is 'The   
   >> Music of the Ainur.'   
   >> ...   
   >   
   > And yet you don't want others to enjoy it literally as music,   
   > which seems oddly inconsistent.   
      
   Not at all - in more than one sense.  Why should enjoying _any_ story rely   
   on everybody enjoying it the same way?  But in any case, I said, and Troels   
   may have said, I don't recall, that _we_ don't take it literally. There's no   
   reason nobody else should.  My disagreement with you hasn't been over   
   whether you should, but that I have had some trouble with your description   
   of "literal", which doesn't seem quite literal.   
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   derek   
      
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