Nepotism?

[Jeffrey Meikle]

>First Jackson...
>Now Sales... could this be Kirkpatrick Sales offspring/cousin/etc?

Thanks!  I was just gonna ask the same question, having just gotten a copy
of the magazine yesterday.  We're told by Ms. Sales that this is the first
"confirmed" sighting of TRP since who knows when.  My question is...
confirmed by *whom*?  Since no one knows what he looks like, he can only be
"confirmed" by someone who does, or  by himself.  Is this part of the
pre-publication publicity blitz?

I do recall a Soupy Sales, but Sales is not really one of the more common
surnames...and Kirkpatrick is indeed rumored to be a friend of TRP.  Nancy
Jo Sales is a contributing editor of "New York"--any of you New York
literati know anything about her background?

Regarding the "New York Observer" "preview" of "Mason and Dixon," which
casts them as a sort of dual-piston Maxwell's demon (there's a lot more to
it than that, as Steely posted), don't we fall into the old quantum
physics/participant observer situation here, that any act of observation
has an impact on the situation being observed.  I can just imagine the wild
scenes at the publisher's now, as TRP wades in with a bog hoe to make major
changes to a work already in galleys as the result of this unexpected
"intervention."

Cheers,
Jeff