Incoming Mail

Wolfe, Skip crw4 at NIP1.EM.CDC.GOV
Wed Sep 25 13:53:00 CDT 1996



>Or, Pirate didn't know just how right he was. That's how I've always taken
>it, i.e. he said it figuratively, meaning incoming artillery, only later
>to learn that it was literal.

>Joe

Pirate's ironic "Incoming mail, indeed." on p. 11 (l. 16) supports Joe's 
reading, IMO.

     Skip



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