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Originally Posted by roachboy
this is like a movie, then. you can include or exclude whatever you like to reinforce your ready-made position. like the dress-up? leave out everything that makes it a problem. find it suspect? include things that make it a problem. the "historical facts" include context, though. if you leave out context, you're trafficking in fantasy. so let's not pretend that isolating the dinner as recounted by bradford in "of plymouth plantation" is a "matter of historical fact" on it's own. that'd be like saying your winter hat says everything about you, no need to see or do or think about anything else because we have the winter hat.
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If it's just a child who wants to play dress-up with your winter hat, and maybe re-enact the historic event of your wearing that hat while treking through the snow, one day, to go meet your sweetheart; why should we spoil that's child's fun by teaching them the finer if not more gritty details of that event, such as the reason you braved and endured a trek through the snow, that day, was so that you could go have a sexual tryst with your lover?