[UntoHim]

Come on Cassidy, my man. Is this all ya got?
We are not in English class. We are in a public forum. I am not going to allow you to let us get lost in the minutiae of word definitions. You are trying to bait Ray, and frankly I think you are above such tactics...or am I being too vague for you?

Look, we are just at the very beginning of this book. Nothing is going to be substantiated in the first few pages....else it wouldn't be much of a book, now would it? As with all good writers, Duddy is painting with some pretty broad strokes to begin with. You disagree with what is stated in the broad strokes? Great! No problem! Simply state your disagreement with the same broad strokes if you like. Address what is actually written and quoted by NFnL. But please, could you refrain from entering into hand-to-hand combat over the definitions of relatively basic words in the English language? I really hate to absolutize all this, but in order to avoid being obscure, and as a matter of course, I am forced into using precision in my wording....