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Alice:


> This seems wrong to me. Why apply the idea or concept of a Preterite
> from  GR to VL?  Again, that the term is not used in VL only weakens
> the argument.  What's not said is not said. What is in the text is
> surely more important than what is not in it.
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"What's not said is not said." Aside from this being a tautology, thereby 
having no meaning, the statement must be taken as an attempt to express 
something literally, which would completely miss the point. Metaphors are 
not literally "what is said," and anyone who knows anything about literature 
knows that metaphor is one of, if not the, most powerful tools available to 
an author. Inference is also a powerful tool that is "not said" in the text. 
It seems to me that many p-list posters, particularly the most insightful 
ones, use inference in their explications and explanations.





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