In a message dated 3/29/10 2:46:14 PM, [email protected] writes:
> As far as us9ing words to talk to you,I think abstract thought demands > words to stand in for the abstr5act pieces, but something like turning > up the burner can be done in pictures of the various stages. I am > having trouble getting through , this is actually in answer to Brady > and Cheerskep. > Kate Sullivan > > In truth I have on my groaning hard drive not one but two (unfinished) responses to Brady. I'm going to make you all miss the congenial Mr. Miller by preaching from a great height about the folly of failing to grill such phrases as "stand in for". I claim all you guys have only the foggiest notion behind such usages. But I can't so preach at the moment because I'm tied up arranging for a lawyer to stand in for me in a legal wrangle in California. (Heh-heh!)
