Maas o menos

[Diana York Blaine]

May I point out the suitably Pynchonian (not to mention Foucauldian)
difficulty y'all are having in finding out the "true" origin of
Maas?  Even the carbon-unit bearing that name in Real Landia cannot (it's
ok Steve, we feel your pain.)  Reminds me alot of Oedipa's search for the
source of the Courier's Tragedy in CoL49 itself. Strike another blow
for post-structuralism--all we can know is language and we cannot even
know that.  (Even, or perhaps especially, those of us with edu.'s)  Diana