MDDM Ch. 77

[Terrance]

My generous and uncapricious Friends
	To be what I have called you all is a great merit---I am not sure that
(in most cases) it is a merit to which I myself have any title to lay
claim!---Were I put to the  Bar (more likely bellied up in the company
of Groundhogs and Carpenters) it would puzzle me to how to deny that I
do occasionally (on too many occasions in most cases) exhibit very
pretty specimens of this fashionable failing, particularly toward
newly-formed-acquaintances---people who have pleased me on meeting them
for a time (hurry up please, it's time) in cyberspaces or at the bar,
and then been thought of and wished for no more.---Such folks however, I
never dreamt of classing among my friends, as I now venture confidently
to class you. 
For sundry reasons, too tedious to enumerate, I have profited from your
friendship here. To Robert and S~Z, Monroe and Millson, Mackin, Morris,
Kai, Otto, Dudious, MalignD, I am indebted, and now, to make clear
scores with my conscience, must make use of the only tool I can hold in
my hand with confidence and swing---the hammer.  No more rigmarole, I
must to work. 

The Gypsy Roofer, 

Lycidas 






Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Tanner, Tony.  "'The Rubbish-Tip for Subjunctive
>    Hopes': Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon."
>    The American Mystery: American Literature from
>    Emerson to DeLillo.  New York: Cambridge UP,
>    2002.  222-38.
> 
> --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > and all that rubbish tip dustbin history stuff
> > (can't remember what essay, but the rubbish tip of
> > history or some such is included in one of the
> > critical books on M&D)
> 
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