In the novel Robinson Cruso, marooned on his island, soliloquizes on the uselessness of gold or coin in his condition. Then he strips off his cloths, swims to the wreck, and fills his pockets with a trunk-worth of gold bullion. Then he swims back to shore.
Why did he bother with the gold? What pockets, if he was naked? How did he swim while weighing a ton?
Why should Defoe have paid attention to what he was writing? Surely he can’t have imagined that readers were paying attention to what they were reading.
That restarts yesterday's post; but the balance of the revision has been moved to Knatz.com. There I can better develop, revise, and add to it.
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