Posted by Adam Quinan on December 14, 2004 at 12:28:02 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: AR activities 2004 - Files, A further complication posted by Laurence Monkhouse on December 14, 2004 at 11:14:03:
Laurence wrote: But in WH in the paragraph after Ed's second quotation Nancy says that she nearly wore out the file inthe pocket knife she had been given at Christmas "filing through an old railing to get that cross-bar"
Ah the penalties of computer literalism and why it always helps to read the original text! Ed searched for Iron Bar but Ransome didn't use the word in this passage!
Not that I am opposed to Ed supplying us with quotes based on his marvellous resource, just that, as in other aspects of life, it isn't always enough to rely on the easiest means of doing something!