MDMD(5) Chap 16----Opening Comments
Eric Alan Weinstein
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk
Sun Aug 3 19:50:39 CDT 1997
Chap 16
I've posted a lot so I'm going to keep this last one short.
The first time a read this chapter I giggled
quite a lot. All I recalled of it later was the Big Cheese
episode. Looking back on the chapter during
my second read of M & D, I see now that only half
the chapter is about this. Moreover, the second
encounter with Rebekah, which is more interesting
than the first (to me, at any rate) and her little bit of
metaphysical disclosure, occur in this chapter.
So Chapter 16 is more complex than at first it seems,
and as I hope I have suggested, there may even be
a little connection between Love, The way the Big
Cheese happens to roll free, and the angular
momentum of our Tellurick lives.
Now ----What can we do with all this stuff?
Let MDMD(5) begin!
Eric Alan Weinstein
University of London
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk
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