GRGR(6) - section 8 (#3)

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Fri Jul 30 08:43:45 CDT 1999


On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, rj wrote:

> 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.

Yes. I think I tend to read one of Roger's Christmases of the War as
merely metonymic.

 
			P.




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