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[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     A-hem.  <Taptaptap>
     
     Uh, ex-cuse me, everyone (everyone except Steve Maas, that is), but 
     I've just finished reading two days worth of mail and I would like to 
     interject here that there is one day left in the current MDMD session 
     before we move on to what Andrew may have prematurely called a "free 
     for all."  (Ahh, Andy, I think we've been havin' it already, don't 
     you?)

     There remain several unanswered questions of which I select the 
     following in what Will Not prove a vain attempt to redirect focus--or 
     heads will roll (everyone's except Steve Maas', that is):

     229.30 `incomprehensibly and perversely, in willful denial of God's
     Disposition of Time and Space, preferring 365 and a Quarter'  Well why
     not?  (AD)
     
     233.22 `"Ahrahr AHR ahrahrahr," adds Lud, years later, in the Cudgel
     and Throck'  Why is Lud adding to a description of his and Dixon's
     first encounter when the description is a flashback not mentioned in
     the previous or ensuing dialogue?  (AD)
     
     241.30 - 241.31  "I'm but getting on with it, Jeremiah,--and so ought
     thee..."  Where have we heard these words before?
     
     249.9  "all Resentments by Star-light heal'd"  This sounds something 
     like a line from a religious hymn.  Is it?
     
     250.27 - 250.28  "Ye may take a boy out of the Country...but never the
     Country out of the Boy."  Can this proverb be attributed to anyone? 
     (I've looked, but can't  find a source.)
     
     251.9 `as Chauncey said when the Bums came in'  Chauncey???  (AD)
     
     252.34  "And I thought 'twas a Spheroid...?"  Where did we here this
     before and why does it bear repeating?
     
     
     Now let's Get On With It, shall we?
     
     Chris
     President, Steve Maas Fan Club