ampersands

[William Daniel Walsh]

> I'm not sure it's been discussed either, but the connection's there.  As
> is the "Y'r O'b'd'n't S'r'v'n't" thing I just massacred.  
> 
> I'm curious as to the P-lister consensus on the whole Wandy T. fiasco.
> Was there a consensus?
> 
> Since I read it around the same time I was reading Vineland, I can't help
> but to feel that the tones of both are too similar to be unrelated.  And
> now, reading M&D, knowing that Wanda T.'s letters predate
> (publication-wise) M&D, I'm nearly convinced . . . .
> 
Yeah, for what it's worth, so am I;  the coincidences are hard to ignore.
However, I am not sure that I'd want to make too big of a deal about it
all.  Assuming TRP is Wanda Tinasky (or, at the very least, that TRP is
responsible for penning some of the letters signed by Wanda T.), what
then?  He almost certainly wrote these letters as a goof, all
along thinking that his real identity would be secure.  I feel a bit
ashamed of myself for caring one way or another.

Bill Walsh