Re: about "dream from"

SpiKe <no-one@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
"lin" <uniquedoggie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1123824410.371137.111700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Life is the art of dreaming sufficient conclusions from insufficient
premises."

in the sentence above ,wot does the "dream.... from "mean?
means conclude?imagine?get? or ....



Butler was dreaming his conclusion that life is simply a form of art
that is dreaming sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

In short he was having a laugh (irony)

'dreaming' substituting the word 'drawing' might seem strange to us
but in the Victorian era it would have been acceptable. Butler also gave us the phrase ::


The problem with your exegesis is that Butler didn't use the word "dreaming" but the word "drawing" according to all the sources available on the Net.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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