[ilds] evidence

[Bruce Redwine]

Agreed — the quotation in question has not been found, although three people seem to recall it.  But "evidence" in literary criticism and biography is by its very nature speculative or interpretative, and to shut off discussion until "hard evidence" appears would probably end all discussion.  The rest would indeed be silence.


Bruce


 
On Apr 5, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Charles Sligh wrote:

> 
>> if he was in fact shocked
> In such questions, one should notice and fondle the evidence.  
> 
> There is nothing wrong with the moonshine of speculation when it comes after the sunny trifles of the evidence have been lovingly collected.
> 
> So where is the evidence in question?  
> 
> Comme l'on serait savant si l’on connaissait bien seulement cinq a six livres.
> 
> Carefully moving ahead. . . .
> 
> C&c.
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