RE: MD Possible incorrect sentence in Lila

From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 21:31:45 BST

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    From: Sriram Subramaniam: I've been reading and re-reading Lila for many
    years now, and I've noticed there is a sentence which I think is phrased
    incorrectly, and I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts about it.
    In chapter 24, near the bottom of page 348 of my Bantam paperback edition,
    the statement appears: "Just as the intellectual revolution undermined
    social patterns, the Hippies undermined both static and intellectual
    patterns." I think this statement is phrased incorrectly. The correct
    statement should read: "...the Hippies undermined both social and
    intellectual patterns."

    [David Buchanan]
    Right. I think its safe to conclude that he's saying the hippies undermined
    social and intellectual static patterns and the sentence could be fixed
    simply by adding the word "social". Along the same lines, a page or two
    before that mistake it reads, "The hippie revolution of the eighties was a
    moral revolution...". If you know what it was like during the Reagan years,
    and especially if you tried to be a hippie in the eighties, then you know
    what a hilarious mistake that is.
     

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