MDMD (6)----p195,196 Asiatick Pygmies

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Sun Aug 17 06:20:02 CDT 1997



> Eric writes:
>  
> > Strange how they inhabit 11 days that do not exist. 
> > Nice if strange idea. Overall however,
> > I found this moment in the text most perplexing.
> > Did anyone have any reaction to this?
> > Or perhaps I will understand after another pint 
> > at the George?

Can't remember if this passage comes before or after Dixon's
observation that Mason doesn't know one end of a woman from
the other. Provides a cute way to comment once again on 
M's otherworldly sexuallity. One would tend to forget when the
object of desire is a member of the third sex. 

			P.



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