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Journeyman

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12. But if you don't confront it - in the least possible way, if that's all you have - you accept it ...

Reply to brush (Reply #10)

Wed Aug 5, 2015, 01:43 AM

Aug 2015

and you can't come to me 30 years later with wild tales of boogeymen you were afraid to confront.

Dyer was some 40 years old when this bow-tied apparition appeared to him at a university he can't even name, and he couldn't find the courage to confront this fool who spouted such idiocies? I have a very limited acquaintance with Baldwin's work, but even I could have mounted a defense against such a specious argument.

The whole vignette seems contrived and far too simplistic for a university setting.

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