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No, I'm just saying (back to the original point) you should castigate somebody by misinterpreting the words. That is sloppy reasoning, and it bothers me. (As i
by jimmywanger 9y ago
No, I'm just saying (back to the original point) you should castigate somebody by misinterpreting the words.
That is sloppy reasoning, and it bothers me. (As it should you)
- pvg 9y agoI don't know what that means. You based some argument on a made-up quote. That argument can't be right, can it? Edit: I'll summarize the arguments you've made so far and the obvious objections. - The Odyssey is a trivial story of a dude returning to his wife [Not true, 20-odd centuries of scholarship saying otherwise] - There is a tiny number of stories all stories reduce to (possibly two), a Major Writer of a World Literature Said So [not true, and, obviously, he did not say that] - The above idea is somehow supported by tvtropes [tvtropes is wonderful but also full of thousands of tropes rather than two] Every single one of these things is just deeply and demonstrably wrong. The totality of your evidence is... a made-up Tolstoy quote and a country song? It's hard to tell how to even argue with this.