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Old 10-26-2007, 10:30 AM   #11
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This is the kind of challenging intellectual debate that I keep coming back for.
Myself, on the other hand, have been coming back fully expecting to see one of the brighter Downs wits who so favour parody to provide us with Professor Higgins' rendition of Why can't the movie be more like the book?.

I'd try my hand at it myself except blast it all PJ provided so much evidence himself to satisfy the refrain.



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PJ should have read Shippey.
What's even more frightening than the possibility that he didn't is that he did, but didn't understand him. Or Fleiger's Splintered Light.

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Why in the world would I want a second hand source to interpret something for me . . . .
I could swear that this sentence is the start of that Professor Higgin's parody I was thinking of. Beginning rings so true to it . . .
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