From: matthew.malthouse@guardian.co.uk
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:20:00 +0000
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon's scene - (sorry - last time)




On 06/01/2003 16:21:56 Andrew Bollen wrote:

>Matthew wrote:
>
>>
>> On 06/01/2003 13:56:24 maa32 wrote:
>>
>> >Roy has a very fixed idea of the Typhon scene in mind - and I admit I
am
>> >guilty (all the time) of paraphrasing.
>>
>> Which is unfortunate, the more so for those who might read posts
without
>> the text at hand.
>>
>> >  Even in quotes.
>>
>> But that is unforgivable.  To do so is duplicitous.
>>
>>
>> Matthew
>
>That's a bit harsh. Marc's paraphrase includes some paraphrased reported
>speech, so he puts it in quotes. It's not like he's faking up a reference
or
>something. Maybe it'd be helpful if he flagged it as a paraphrase, but
it's
>not that big a deal, I think.

Marc ascribed to Typhon words that are not in the text.

The use of quotation marks is conventionally to indicate a direct
citation.

Unless you propose that we abandon the conventions what was presented to
us was an interpretation apparently textually supported but for which in
reality no such text exists.

Matthew



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