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[Mark A. Mandel]

dInIs challenges me thus:

>>>>>
What academic (since we are such a bunch) definition of folklore
would point to a "recklessness of details"?

     [Mark:]
>Correct, of course, and I never noticed it! But folklore is almost
>by definition reckless of details.
<<<<<

Don't ask me for an academic definition, I'm not a folklorist. Everyone
knows that about folklore!


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