--- Robert Elkin <
rictusaporia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Patrick:
> Well, your last sentence is something Spade
himself
> says; as for the rest of it: maybe yes, maybe
no
> [but interesting in any case]. One can
form
> whatever opinion one likes based on the bare
facts
> of the text, but in the end, the ambiguity
refuses
> to go away. And such a thing makes it doubtful
that
> any informed opinion, no matter how much one
might
> disagree with it, could "miss the whole point,"
as
> you put it to KS.
Be that as it may, she does go off to jail, n'est-ce pas? If
that doesn't answer the debate, I don't know what does.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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