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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That sounds like circular statement, Bob, which I’m not arguing for.
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> It just so happens that Eliot et al., historically, made the shift. That’s
> just a statement of fact (whatever cultural value judgement one puts on it).
> And I agree with you that this doesn’t mean that someone else (a
> contemporary of Eliot, Joyce, Stein, etc) couldn’t have done it, also. It
> only says, that they did.
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> Original Message:
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> the idea that no one but the first one to do something could have done it
> don't make no sense to me.
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