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Re: No Phrase I Can Think Of Applies For A Subject Here.
Posted By: TOM, on host 147.72.80.2
Date: Friday, April 19, 2002, at 08:55:25
In Reply To: Re: No Phrase I Can Think Of Applies For A Subject Here. posted by Grishny on Friday, April 19, 2002, at 08:15:54:

> There's nothing wrong with using fantasy to
> communicate real world ideas. When author
> Jonathan Swift wanted to attack his political
> opponents, he used satire. He created a
> fantasy setting, turning those whose ideas
he
> held in contempt into Lilliputians and
> Brobdingnagians, and triumphed over them
in
> literature as Gulliver.
>

And then nobody who read his book back then
really understood it, and Swift got pretty mad
about that.

In other words, if you want people to
understand what you're saying, then just *say*
it. The reason Swift did what he did was fear of
censorship. I think.

The Other "I picked up *something* from
English" Matthew

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