MDMD2: Where's the delete button?

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 27 10:56:06 CDT 2001


Well, haven't been at my e-mail for days now, and what
little access time I've had I've been using to post my
increasingly ragged MDMD2 notes (which I hope to get
back to here shortly, but you all have kept yourselves
occupied anyway, so ... so sorry if you ahven't been
enjoying it, Paul ...), so, pardon me if this has been
mentioned already, but anyone notice how virtually
everything Dixon's said so far has been phrased in the
form of a question?  Mason & Dixon & Trebek ...

--- Paul Nightingale <paulngale at supanet.com> wrote:
> 
> Ch4 then unites Mason and Dixon against Captain
> Smith. The scene opens in mid-conversation. Dixon is
> only identified here by Mason's response. His
> question ("He wants whah?") immediately puts the
> reader at a disadvantage; as yet, we don't even know
> what has baffled him. The following line ("Mason
> nodding with a sour Smile") confirms our exclusion.
> Characters are  introduced, or introduce themselves,
> as they speak.

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