Melville and MiddleWork

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

In response to:
> >Ther inage of the card table being discussed now, IMO, is a metafictional
> > trope, in which the text evokes an image of its own operational methods
> >--here the illusion of *depth* created by a pattern of lines on a
> > two-dimensional surface = the book you're reading.  
> >Makes sense to me, but--whaddya you think?

MantaRay at aol.com wrote:
> I don't think I'm to that part in the book yet. I'm skipping most of the
> M&D discussion because it's slow going for me. Which page is it on?


And I thought I was reading slow! :-)  (It's p.1)