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Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:26:48PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> 
>>Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
>>
>>
>>>So we have a sender, and a location of the sender, and the
>>>recipient, but not the location of the recipient?
>>
>>I think x3 is the destination address, not the recipient.
>>Consider letters to Santa Claus or junk mail addressed to
>>"Occupant": they don't really have recipients.

How would you translate: "I sent God a letter by sticking a note into 
the Western Wall"?  The Wall seems more like the delivery system (x5) 
than the recipient's address (x3), especially since the recipient is 
omnipresent, but then where do you stick "la cevni" into the sentence?

cf. 
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/objects/details_and_close_ups/378421_wishful_notes_packed_in_the_cracks_of_the_western_wall.php?id=378421


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