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   From: mmikeda@erols.com   
      
   Paul S. Person  wrote in   
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   > I would also like to take this opportunity to point out, in a   
   > desperate attempt to revert to the actual topic of this thread   
   > (from which, I agree, I have diverged), that a /competent/   
   > storyteller, when telling a story whose set up is that old Bilbo   
   > is telling Frodo what young Bilbo did, would realize that this   
   > restricts him to those things Bilbo actually experienced.   
   >   
      
   It is entirely possible for someone to tell a story that includes   
   events that they did not personally experience but learned of in   
   other ways.   For example, by hearing about them from Gandalf.   
      
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