MDMD(1)--Card Table

[Vaska]

At 12:27 PM 6/9/97 -0500, Scott Eric Kaufman wrote:

>On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, John Pendergast wrote:
>
>> "mostly Pine and Cherry about, nor much Mahogany, excepting a sinister
>> and wonderful Card Table which exhibits the cheaper Wave-like Grain
>> known in the Trade as Wand'ring Heart, causing an illusion of Depth into
>> which for years children have gaz'd as into the illustrated Pages of
>> Books. . ."
>
>As I read this completely out of context (having finished M&D last week
>and being unable to remember these particulars) I'm thinking that
>Pynchon's knocking us, that we're the children gazing into "an illusion of
>Depth" . . . but that's just me.

Me, too, but what the hell.
Vaska