Originally posted by John G
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It just depends on how you interpret the word "writing". Or rather what context it is being used in.
It could simply mean that, while Tony was ill (in 1991), the first draft of the diary was written and that draft was completed by August 1991 when Tony died. The scrapbook was then acquired in March and the actual fake diary was then written in April.
We face the same problem with our posts today. If Mike dictated the words to Anne to write into the scrapbook did Mike "write" the diary or did Anne "write" it? One has to use phrases like "write with a pen" to make clear what one is talking about.
If you look at the last paragraph of my post #1224 above, I made this very point about the meaning of "writing".
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