Michael LeBuffe has argued that the central passages on which most scholars have developed their interpretations should not be read as proposing a theory of consciousness; rather, these passages are focused on "the epistemological status of certain elements of conscious experience".
Boethius the character is clearly taken in by this fallacious argument, and there is no good reason to think that Boethius the author ever became aware of the fallacy (despite a passage later on which some modern commentators have interpreted in this sense).
Judge Chin read his passage on retribution, which, after the length of the sentence itself, appeared to have the greatest impact.
In Michel Houellebecq's "The Elementary Particles," there's a passage on cruelty which includes a granny, a little boy and a pair of secateurs.
It is also true that, on the metaphysical interpretation of the passage, the grounds on which Pyrrho advanced his metaphysical thesis of indeterminacy are never specified; this too, like the precise character of the thesis itself, must be a matter for speculative reconstruction.
By contrast, a much more prolonged bout of suffering, the notorious Middle Passage across the Atlantic, on which more than 12 million Africans were embarked for the Americas over more than three centuries, we know about almost entirely from the perpetrators.
It all depends on which passage of the bible you are looking at.
Maddow focused on one passage in which Perry hints that Social Security is unconstitutional.
Having egregiously misread the plot, Tarloff goes on amply to excerpt from erotic passages in my novel, on which excerpts I would comment except that merely to pass my eyes over them brings on such ardor as to leave me immobilized.
