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1. An assumed name, for the danger I undergo in writing this will be
apparent to all but the most unenlightened reader.
2. With all due respect to the distinguished professors involved in the
dispute touched upon above, the editors have insisted that I use
abbreviated names in order to condense the present document from its
unwieldy (but certainly more courteous) length of approximately 3,000
pages.
3. Details of the present state of the discussion may be found by the
interested reader in PHILOSOPHIKA GNOMIKON MMXVII (323 A.C.),
pp. 675,328 - 682,465. I have my own opinion, but shall not give it here,
for I am equally patriotic.
For again the dignity of this Guild - indeed, the dignity
of gnomes everywhere - has been insulted by outsiders. A
Gnomish philosopher once said (and in saying it, could rest
assured that somewhere, some human would claim the
saying as HIS own and nobody would know otherwise),
"The history of a war is written by the victors." Not all of
the victors, mind you, but only those who escape the war
with the least carnage and the most coinage, a most
unfortunate circumstance for Gnomish philosophers,
writers, and artists, only recently righted by last month's
publication of Volume I of the PHILOSOPHIKA
GNOMIKON, an eminent journal which I hope will soon
publish this article in its entirety
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