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David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 13 12:26:57 CDT 2003


--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >>>More comments, ideas, etc., please?<<<
> 
> I would also vote for avoiding spoilage by staying with what we know from the
text at the point in the text we are reading. This will require some to play
dumb in the early stages and for the rest of us just to be ourselves.

This is only partly practical and maybe counterproductive.  None of us, first
timers (me) of re-readers will have a rock-solid take on what's the "truth" of
the text, who's who and who's not.  So it's natural that we'd all want to start
speculating.  But those with foreknowledge will be at a disatvantage if they
have to keep quiet.  I guess we could ask that such speculation be based soley
on what's been read thus far, but that will be a task for those having already
been through the book to try to grapple with, a hard self-call.

DM

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