[SoothingDave]

I got down to the "principal figure" stuff before I realized that whoever wrote this is barking up the wrong tree without a paddle.

Ditto, and well put.

I must admit that straining at what is meant by "the last twelve hours" is nearly as ridiculous as trying to parse what an American means when she mentions "unknown actors."

SD

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

The whole article is nothing more than guilt by derived association, where it is even factual. i wonder if the author has considered Hormone Replacement Therapy?

[AnAmericanMother]

Yeah, I stopped reading at the "principal figure" argument too.

At that point it was plain that the author is pretending not to understand a term in common use among teachers of literature as well as ordinary people to describe the main character or actor in a scene. . . . just in order to ascribe some weird occultic meaning to the phrase because she also found it being used in other places.

It's almost as bad as concluding that because the words "man", "house" and "tree" appear somewhere in both the Bible and Das Kapital, that the Bible is a Marxist conspiracy (or maybe that Das Kapital is a Biblical conspiracy. I think I like that better. ;-D )

This article is pretty much just sound and fury.