> I've always had a strong instinctive feeling that when someone responds to
> an argument by citing some book that supposedly proves the argument wrong,
> they have a discursive obligation to summarize the book. Otherwise it's the
> intellectual equivalent of having a girlfriend in Canada.
>
> Is that an anti-Canadian remark?
A college friend of mine had one of those for years and years. The joke was on the rest of us when she moved to our town and married him!
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."