on 29/7/01 9:17 PM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
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> Thanks, Jill
>
> And yet qualification can be
> an aid to timing if nothing else, and perhaps also suggest a tentativeness
> about judgements that are otherwise too arrogantly categorical (compare 'a
> sort of courteous love' at the end of the poem).
Point taken, and is usually the reason I leave the word in, and is why I
qualified my comment at the end. It was just my own Weasel Word Detector
working, maybe, overtime (as opposed to senses).
Best,
Jill
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