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posted by [personal profile] simont at 09:48am on 23/01/2009
But why do we say "it came to me"? Surely it came from me?

They're not mutually exclusive! But it came from a part of you to which you don't have convenient conscious access, to a part of you to which you do. The latter is the bit that caused it to be useful, hence the bit that tends to be emphasised in such situations.

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