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speaking of redlining, how would you mark this:
"The distinctions we draw between past, present, and future are discriminations among illusions."
- Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest (paraphrasing Einstein)
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I'd prefer between to among, but that wouldn't stop me from selling a house to the perp.
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>I'd prefer between to among
in both instances?
edit: BTW, the perp is shown in white, back in the top post.
(and Einstein is actually quoted as, "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.", so perhaps Wolfe is guilty of a bit of hypercorrection)
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I prefer between.
I also struggle with the Oxford comma, just because I was edumacated not to use it, though it often feels more right.
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speaking of redlining, how would you mark this:
"The distinctions we draw between past, present, and future are discriminations among illusions."
- Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest (paraphrasing Einstein) My problem with this sentence is in the word "illusions". If you are not to distinguish between past, future and present then neither can you use the plural illusions. In tsu's later post where he quotes Einstien the reference to illusion is singular, which is correct IMO. PS. What do you mean by "redlining"? A browse on the net gave me some references to mortage, law, and loans.
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Avy, the two citations break down like this:
The distinctions.. are discriminations among illusions.
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the distinction.. is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
they both agree in number.
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to redline: A compound of red + line, recalling the frequent use of red pen or pencil to mark corrections on documents
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I prefer the original. 'Stubbornly persistent' personifies the description for me likening the science of time to a person.
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Avy, the two citations break down like this:
The distinctions.. are discriminations among illusions.
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the distinction.. is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
they both agree in number.
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to redline: A compound of red + line, recalling the frequent use of red pen or pencil to mark corrections on documents Ah, but, redlining also has a mechanical application. It can refer to a piece of equipment being operated above the limits of safety, as for example, too many rpm or too little oil pressure in an automobile engine or too much air pressure in a steam boiler on a early riverboat or train engine.
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PS. What do you mean by "redlining"? A browse on the net gave me some references to mortage, law, and loans.
Avyy, as your search showed, it also means identifying neighborhoods where one doesn't want undesirables moving in [/not a political post, just 'splainin!!]
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