"Begging the answer"

[Wilson Gray]

Well, it had to happen. From a letter to the editor of the NYT:

"A pretty risky article, as _the answer that the title begs_ is obvious."


-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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