GRGR(6) - section 8 (#3)

rj rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au
Thu Jul 29 01:15:20 CDT 1999


Paul, re 1939-1945 as The Dates:
> However I don't think P is playing with any of these possibilities.
> And he certainly didn't misspeak himself.

No indeed, but for Roger, from the vantage of Christmas 1944, the dated
itinerary of The War mightn't be so rigidly entrenched. I tend to read
it as *Roger's* "seventh Christmas of the War", rather than The War's
per se.

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