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shrikant on June 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Talk to Human Beings

Also, as long as we're being literal about everything, it would be impossible to kill a child (or anything else..) multiple times.

Anderkent on June 15, 2012 [–]

The 'multiple times' annotates occurrence of desire, not the subject of desire. He doesn't "want to kill him many times", but many times a day he "wants to kill him".

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