my earlier post was written from exasperation-----i read through it a couple times and do not see really why seaver interpreted it as he did--but it is a possible/viable reading (mea culpa i guess)--but what i meant was weakness of position, weakness of argument, weakness of logic or evidence.
in this case, landes' shabby "pallywood" video is both weak at the level of evidence and weak at the level of argument--yet it CONTINUES to be treated as though it was definitive by the same folks.
and i do think that continuing to act as though the landes film is not a problem amounts to provocation--it certainly is not about presenting compelling evidence to support a point. quite the contrary.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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