�re "not arresting growers, but supervising quality control"

[Malignd]

<<Obviously it's a fact that P chose to begin his
piece with Orwell's parentage, but your point was that
it was reasonable to speculate at to why he did. My
point is that your guess about why P did what he did
is no more reasonable than Doug's.>>

My "speculation" was a statement of a fact.  I'm sorry
if that was too subtle.

But let me speculate.  He started his article on
Orwell with Orwell's birth and parentage.  I'll
speculate that he may have considered that made a kind
of sense and I'll base that speculation on the fact
that that's in fact what he did.

Do I think that's a more reasonable, more tenable,
position than claiming:

"I suspect, he's using [the comment about the opium
trade] to point to his own treatments of this subject
elsewhere (the opium that Franklin shows Dixon how to
mix up in a generic equivalent of an expensive patent
medicine, for example; or, the way the American
colonists come in and set up commerce in the local
locoweed), inviting the reader to consider this
Foreword in the broader context of his other
writings"?

Yes I do. 


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