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   From: jon.lennart.beck.its.my.name@mail.its.in.danmark   
      
   "Troels Forchhammer"  skrev i meddelelsen   
   news:Xns9F8182671F8E4T.Forch@130.133.4.11...   
      
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   > I do not doubt -- and I think that my own   
   > history supports -- that there is a large element of applicability to   
   > our interpretation of this.  I do not wish to convince anyone that I am   
   > right and they wrong -- I will of course insist that my position is   
   > also consistent with the texts, but otherwise I have needed this   
   > discussion in order to refine my own views, to explore where the ideas   
   > I've been thinking about are taking me, and, to iron out the details   
   > and to express my ideas in an understandable way.   
      
      I have nothing to say to try to refute any of your text that I snipped   
   below, and will not write reams about this. :-)  Your post stands well   
   without my annotating it, hence it is not because I have lost interest that   
   I don't add a few kB.  Just one thing (in this post anyway): I wonder, if   
   the Professor had been still alive and were following these discussions, if   
   he would have been a participant or an arbiter.  Were his own views on the   
   story-internal workings of his subcreation as *detailed* as what we present   
   to each other here? :-)   
      
   Hræfn.   
      
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