MDDM Ch. 77

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on 9/17/02 8:45 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> 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,
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> Lycidas 
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> 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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Time! Gentleman, please!
Good roofer, I tip a Bosendorfer in your honor.