Rarely have I read an interpretation as strange as Graham Fuller's assertion that "Unforgiven" may "certainly be construed as a justification of necessary violence" ["Sending Out a Search Party for the Western," March 5].
"You have to be disposed towards the most benign interpretation of the strange signals you get from time to time," he says.
To cast Bolivia and other developing nations that are already suffering the brunt of climate change as playing the "role of spoiler" in Copenhagen climate talks last year is a strange interpretation of events.
He goes on to offer his own loose interpretation of this "strange," fragmentary, hallucinatory song — something about its mocking orthodoxy — while staying mindful that its impact doesn't rest on parsing every line but on the gestalt of song, singer and sound.
Before Mr. Koizumi's speech on Friday, Singapore, which was occupied by Japanese forces during World War II, released a statement criticizing the Japanese government's endorsement of junior high school textbooks that "approve this rather strange interpretation of the Pacific War in Asia".
And the considerably shorter book that preceded it, "The End of the Road," is a darkly funny and strange interpretation of the university-campus novel, a kind of American spiritual cousin to "Lucky Jim," with a dash of mock-existentialism and parody of Ayn Rand-style mid-century narcissism.
Alston's attempt to make his position intelligible rests on his own Thomistic-Whiteheadian stance, or better, on his Thomistic or Boethian interpretation of Whitehead (strange as this seems).
First of all, from a historic standpoint, this is a very strange interpretation of Islam.
Whether Xenophon believed that there was gambling happening at the event, or whether he simply had a strange interpretation of how the tournament was run – there was a $25 entrance fee, with a top prize of $1,500 available – is unclear.
Each of those results also contradict the predictions of a grid cell to place cell model, despite the strange interpretation of the data made in that paper.
