MDMD(2): Deflation and Friendship flip-flop

[Greg Montalbano]

 Paul Maklin writes:
>
>>>>>>This is a little contrary to what I (but who am I) had taken
>for granted all these years--namely that the writing makes sport of
>conspiracy theories. Of course, this doesn't mean P couldn't belittle
>paranoid thinking and still be in its grip at the same time. He COULD
>be a raving schizophrenic (if these unfortunates rave) for all we know
>personally of him. But did anyone think the latter to be the case based
>on the writing. Moreover, it's my recollection that at least some of
>the initial reviewers of GR emphasized the mockery of it all. I will await
>further advisement, correction, and chastisement.
>
>                        P.  

Perhaps we remember the same things differently;  or perhaps I heard the
opinions of too many lazy reviewers  (& readers) who never went past the
surface.

No, I didn't read him that way, either.  Always saw that smirk behind
everything -- and it's still there, although (as mentioned previously) it's
now being supplemented with genuine heart.