M&D: Cowart article/ch.35

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Michael Crowley wrote:
> But am I missing something, or does he
> mistakenly assign all of Ethelmer's lines to Wicks?  Only Ives's lines are
> tagged in the text, so perhaps anyone could be speaking them, but when we
> get to Ives's response to "Who claims Truth, Truth abandons," we get,
> "'Hogwash, Sir,' Uncle Ives about to become peevish with his Son[...]" he
> then calls the other speaker "young Pup" and "Ethelmer": 
> "'Ethelmer.' Ives raises a monitory Eye-brow. 'Time on Earth is too
> precious.  No one has time, for more than one Version of the Truth." (350)

Think the words in the long statement are Wicks', being in  his style,
not 'Mer's. The confusion arises because the main dispute in progress is
between Ives and Ethylmer, from whom at least some of the unattributed
lines emanate. The problem is, Ives, in his irritation,  choses to answer
Ethylmer although it is Wicks who has just spoken. 

Leastwise that's the way this p-lister remembers it.

			P.