Pirate's Gift/dream theory

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It's always amazed me that St. Elsewhere could explain away its entire
multi-season run as the dream of an idiot child and draw accolades for formal
innovation, when years before another show had plotted itself into a corner
and extricated itself brilliantly using precisely the same gambit, and people
couldn't whale on it hard enough. Ok, so it was Dallas, but even so....
Unrelated remora thought #1: Pynchon is the soul of graciousness when he's
recommending Oakley Hall, John LeCarre, Kerouac et al in the Bindownso
introduction, or assorted new fiction in his jacket blurbs, or Dickinson,
Rilke and other uncopyrighted panjandra in his fiction, but WHAT WRITERS
CAN'T HE STAND? Or if he can't say anything nice, does he just keep mum? (Mum
must be the original kept woman...)
Unrelated remora thought #2: Has any writer ever used the ellipsis to as
great effect as TRP? What Amherst Em did for the dash -- with which Tom no
slouch, neither -- the Glen Cove cyclone for those three little turds...
Unrelated (C)remora thought #3: Betcha didn't know what Trefoil, Tantivy,
Bloat and Corydon all have in common -- they're all guide words in the Oxford
Concise English Dictionary. Coincidence, happenstance, or enemy action?
You are all the non-dairy creamer in my coffee,
David