Originally Posted by Frownland

If you're a literalist who has no room for contextual interpretation I guess they're necessary. They're unnecessary who wouldn't get confused that easily.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.