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   Ardith Hinton to  Anton Shepelev:   
      
   > AH>  I'm reminded here of Jacqueline Susann's novel VALLEY   
   > AH>  OF THE DOLLS, where women in particular were given pills   
   > AH>  which may have made them feel better temporarily but   
   > AH>  which did not address the underlying problem(s).   
   >   
   > AS>  [A learner's question:]   
   > AS>  I never became friendly with this consturction: may have   
   > AS>  made. Does it mean "it is possible that they made"? If so,   
   > AS>  is it correct to use the present tense to describe events   
   > AS>  in a novel introduced in the past tense (were given)?   
   >   
   >            It is possible [that] they made the users feel better   
   > temporarily... yes.  Either way the events of the story are in   
   > the past tense, and whatever we write in the preamble has far   
   > more to do with our own reasoning processes.   
      
   Thanks, I mean what you see (or the other way round).   
      
   > One of the things which may be confusing you here is an idiomatic   
   > use of "it".  ;-)   
      
   In "it is possible that..."? I have no problems with this dummy `it'   
   that I wot of... If, however, you refer to the error I made in a   
   tag quesion that you so kindly corrected in another post, that was   
   just a mental misstep (here is another alliteration for you).   
      
   >            While I don't know of any formal scientific studies on   
   > the topic I'd highly recommend Bernie Siegel's book LOVE,   
   > MEDICINE & MIRACLES.  The author is an oncologist who noticed   
   > that some of his patients appeared to be doing better than   
   > expected, and made it his business to figure out why.  Over the   
   > years I've noticed similar comments from various other front line   
   > workers as well....  :-)   
      
   That is certainly interesting. Our minds are have stronger effect   
   on our bodies than is usually thought, what with stigmae and the   
   yogi. As a nurse told me during a regular medical inspection at the   
   university, all illnesses are because of the nerves, and only one   
   because of love :-)   
      
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