"Let me play _an evil's advocate_." [NT]

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Sep 2 16:44:22 UTC 2011


On Sep 2, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> It's from a post to Slashdot.

So written then.  Ah well, a fellow can dream.

LH
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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.
> -Mark Twain
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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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>> Wilson, when you post something like this, could you give an indication =
>> of its source? Â Was this heard on a television program, in conversation, =
>> or what?
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>> =20
>> John Baker
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>> Subject: "Let me play _an evil's advocate_." [NT]
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