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Dave Monroe wrote:
> Now let's all play nice again, shall we?  Esp. as I'll
> be going in from recess shortly anyway.  Anyway, will
> try to keep up, but, by and large, you likely won't
> have me to kick around (or not) 'til very near the
> very end here.  Must ... resist ... urge ... to host
> ... but seriously, folks, thanks again, always
> appreciate at the VERY least the oportunity to
> exercise the ol' Merton College Library, so ...

Thank you very much. I can't quite figure out what the game 
is here. No really, been here since the first go round of M&D and 
I can't figure it out. Just a bunch of noise, that is at least 95% of
it. 
Why Dave, you decide to pick on Robert, maybe you think of him as the
only 
worthy opponent, only one with the time, willing to make the effort,
don't know. 
But I'm sure glad we have you both even if I  much prefer Robert's
approach, that is, while the notes and extra-textual/inter-textual stuff
is fascinating and interesting, Robert goes to the book we have in
common, which at the moment is M&D. At what point does all the
annotation become a distraction for the reading? I don't know. 
I do know that very little discussion of M&D has taken place here. You
note Robert's absence from you party. Not the first time. It's easy
enough to get him to comment on the duck, which btw, I think is the
least important thing going on in these chapters, kind of old hat with
Pynchon--old V. stuff really, if you know how to go about it. I know
that if I wait till the party has moved uptown and we are into the next
chapter and I circle back, Robert will play a little pin the tail of the
donkey. 

Chow, 

T