required reading

[davemarc]

At 07:02 PM 12/5/96 -0500, Chris wrote in part:
>     
>     With regard to our friend TRP, I would say, natch, that he *doesn't* 
>     lack those traits, that he *does* have a plan, good organizational 
>     skills, etc. etc.  But I would venture to guess that serendipity, 
>     synchronicity and chance all play larger roles in his writings than 
>     we, the adoring public, think they do.  Don't they, eh, Mr. P., sir?  
>     I think the marvelous confluence between the word and the plan and the 
>     angel of randomness is the big bang that creates works of genius.  
>     (Remember the famous story about Beckett transcribing a door slam into 
>     the mss. of Finnegan's Wake, was it, for our boy James?  Check me on 
>     this, Joyce-l lurkers.)  
>     
>     I think that TRP must be gettin' quite a chuckle now and then from 
>     stuff like our microscopic meanderings through the GRGR.      
>     
>     Well, either that, or one royal headache.
>
Isn't there a story about someone rhapsodizing about a GR design element
that was not TRP's doing in the slightest?

davemarc