Hi ho
I'm putting this here as I can not think of anywhere else.
And its regarding various statements, memoranda, annotations and what nots.
For the life of me I cannot understand why people persist (other than their having nothing else to do I suppose) in over analysing ever single letter of such documents. The way they were written surely refelcts the purpose to which they were intended. If the authors had ever known that a bunch of obsessives were ever going to be picking over them for minutae.....then perhaps they would have written them different.
But if Swanson was writing notes to himself, and others were writing memoranda or letters to people who they did not feel would be looking for the tiniest nuances of meaning....then perhaps the strict accuracy was left lacking.
NOt through mistakes on the authors part but because they framed them with the amount of care or work (hence quality) they thought appropriate for the intended audience.
Surely the important point is that Mac....n mentioned Druitt. he did not pull the name out of a hat. He had obviously heard of him in some context.
The exact details are irrelevant surely?
p
I'm putting this here as I can not think of anywhere else.
And its regarding various statements, memoranda, annotations and what nots.
For the life of me I cannot understand why people persist (other than their having nothing else to do I suppose) in over analysing ever single letter of such documents. The way they were written surely refelcts the purpose to which they were intended. If the authors had ever known that a bunch of obsessives were ever going to be picking over them for minutae.....then perhaps they would have written them different.
But if Swanson was writing notes to himself, and others were writing memoranda or letters to people who they did not feel would be looking for the tiniest nuances of meaning....then perhaps the strict accuracy was left lacking.
NOt through mistakes on the authors part but because they framed them with the amount of care or work (hence quality) they thought appropriate for the intended audience.
Surely the important point is that Mac....n mentioned Druitt. he did not pull the name out of a hat. He had obviously heard of him in some context.
The exact details are irrelevant surely?
p
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