MDMD(8) Questions - Tunnels

Sherwood, Harrison hsherwood at btg.com
Fri Sep 19 14:30:45 CDT 1997


>From: 	David Casseres
>
>Harrison sez
>>I don't buy the Diggers/San Fran thingy. Sorta...forced, don't you
>>think? 
>
>Well... the agricultural anarcho-reformers called the Diggers were part 
>of the turmoil in England that M&D is set against; if Our Allusionist 
>capitalizes the word I think it's a Sign that he wants us to be reminded 
>of them.

Absolutely! A glass of wine with you, sir!

This tunneling stuff is just so incredibly rich and loamy and friable
and arable and full of life-giving vitamins and iron, helping young
bodies grow in twelve different ways: tunnels as binary analogues to
Ley-lines; hints of the good ol' TRP paranoia with ancient subterranean
& invisible connections between the Church and the Castle; a reflection
of the _sub rosa_ communication system alluded to earlier by Fr.
Maire...

...Which, looked at with through a certain pair of spectacles I keep
here on my desk right next to my modem, sounds Mighty Familiar (230.19):

"The meek [*heh*!] nod again. 'In the all but inconceivably remote event
we did wish to reach you,--why aye, one does hear of Devices already in
position, which could find you faster than any known Packet [!] or
Express.'

"'And...t'would merely be to say "Whatcheer," inquire after the Weather,
perhaps pass a few Spiritual Remarks, I presume....'"

I think I've found a new .sig...

Harrison





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