L.E.D.

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Up to page 100 or so, I am having the hardest time not reading spoilers on M & D. As 
always, much insight circulating.  I noticed that foax had picked up the Hiff's Boson play, 
which somebody (davemarc? if wrong, appy polly loggys to whomever) showed was more
 than a funny low pun (natch).  So, do you think the miraculous Learned English Dog, the 
LED, should evoke the equally miraculous Light Emitting Diode? 
 The larger question is--is  there a pattern of undeniably contemporary scientific ideas, 
language, etc. coded in throughout  M & D similar to these two examples (assuming the 
L.E.D. strikes you as persuasive)?  Has anyone else found any?  This would strengthen the 
palimpest theme, which has occurred twice, significantly, in the first 100 pages--the table 
top on p. 1 and the Krees blade (p.?)
I mean, it seems completely obvious to me so far that M & D is meant to *poke* through 
its own fictional fabric into *our* zone every bit as much as GR does.  To remind us, in 
each case,  exactly what the point of all this is--viz. contemporary America, not an 
historical romance.
john m