Subject: Re: Frost/Lynch Completely Wimped Out This Time...
From: duane@mauve.UUCP (Andrew Duane)
Date: 1990-12-05, 13:10
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: duane@mauve.samsung.com (Andrew Duane)

In article <12337@milton.u.washington.edu> jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt) writes:
> >From: dlp@zule.EBay.Sun.COM (Dan Pritchett)
> >In article <9741@fy.sei.cmu.edu> dd@sei.cmu.edu (Dennis Doubleday) writes:
> >**...
> >**COOPER: Harry, is it easier to believe that a man would rape and
> >**murder his daughter?
> >**
> >**In the real world, the unspoken answer to the question is "Yes".  And
> >**that is the horror of it.

> >Wait a minute -- the answer is "yes".  Yes, it is easier to believe 
> >in child abuse than in inhabiting spirits.  Did you read the question
> >in some other way?  Are we all talking about the same thing?

There was a second phrase in the question:
Harry, is it easier to believe that a man would rape and
murder his daughter? More comforting?
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This means to me that the word "easier" doesn't mean "less hard"
but "less disturbing". Given that meaning, the answer is "YES".



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