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Thread #150885   Message #3520259
Posted By: MGM·Lion
29-May-13 - 02:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Unarmed soldier killed, (London-May 2013)
Subject: RE: BS: Unarmed soldier killed, Woolwich (London)
In fact, Don: on reflection I can't but feel that your silly argument on no·quote·admissible·without·context deserves a bit of the old reductio ad absurdum.

So tell me please: if one sentence is not enough, then how many of a context must be given before an argument from quotation is acceptable? 3 sentences? 10 sentences? 100 sentences? Nothing will do but the entire work even if it's Clarissa or War&Peace?

Oh, come on now, Don...

~M~