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   SIR WILFRED LUCAS-DOCKERY to All   
   Re: My Next   
   10 Jan 06 14:03:53   
   
   From: wilfy@dsrsfsfgsfdsbsfsbsgsb.com   
      
   "P.S.Burton"  wrote in message   
   news:1136891951.777633.198990@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > "Should the books   
   > now be republished with the f-word , the b-word etc inserted?   
   >   
   >   
   > ~~You should not allow your taste for counter-intuitive argument lead   
   > you to   
   > take refuge in the ridiculous."   
   >   
   > This goes on. Penguin books have done it.   
   >   
      
   Do you mean that texts that once contained censored 'blanks' have had their   
   intended swear words restored? That matters not. What Hitchens was   
   suggesting was inserting them where they would have been if the author   
   hadn;t used a milder expression of the day. That matters a lot.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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