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To: Hazcat

Not to belabor it, but “draw from” is ambiguous. I draw from my memory, as one draws from a well, when I write; no pictures involved. The more precise construction would have been “draws scenes from memory,” but headline writers have a limited character count. And, often, a deadline measured in minutes.


26 posted on 02/13/2008 11:50:51 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
The more precise construction would have been “draws scenes from memory,” but headline writers have a limited character count. And, often, a deadline measured in minutes.

Precisely what I was attempting to convey.

From is not correct but with was worse and more ambiguous.

27 posted on 02/13/2008 11:53:16 AM PST by Hazcat (We won an immigration BATTLE, the WAR is not over. Be ever vigilant.)
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