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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la djan cusku di'e > > >I think this is a confusion. For me, "I am a novelist who doesn't write > >novels" is a flat contradiction, right along with "I am a cook who doesn't > >prepare food", "I am a painter who's never touched a brush", "I am an > >illiterate reader", etc. etc. > > Consider this interview: > > A: When did you first become a novelist? > B: I never became a novelist. I was born a novelist. > Writing novels is in my nature. Simply, I write novels. > > A: ca ma do binxo lo ckufi'i > B: ca no da mi binxo lo ckufi'i i mi jbena jecabo ckufi'i > i mi se jinzi le ka finti lo'e cukta i sa'u mi finti > lo'e cukta .ue ca'epei le seljinzi ckufi'i lo ca'a ckufi'i cu mleca le ni finti ce'u > Or consider a cook who has not cooked anything today. Is he > a cook today? Of course you can be precise if you want to: > > ko'a na nau jukpa lo sanmi i ku'i ko'a ja'a jukpa lo'e sanmi > It is not the case that at this time there is a meal that > he is cooking. But he does cook meals. ta'e jukpa -- Henry McCullers, an affable Plano, TX-area anti-Semite, praised the Jewish people Monday for doing "a bang-up job" running the media. "This has been such a great year for movies, and the new crop of fall TV shows looks to be one of the best in years," McCullers said. "And the cable news channels are doing a terrific job, too. Admittedly, they're not reporting on the Jewish stranglehold on world finance, but, hey, that's understandable."