ATD: "against the day"

[K. Michael Babcock]

<snoot>

Wouldn't AD be a more appropriate abbreviation?

Generally function words such as 'the' are dropped from acronyms, or in this
case, initialisms.

</snoot>

On 7/21/06, David Meury <dmeury at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> <<The acronym ATD is possibly the least pleasing of
> all the Pynchon acronyms.>>
>
> Yeah, and how about TP, I mean, sheesh! what kind of
> initials are those?
>
> And what's the acronym for _V._?  And what's up with
> that period?
>
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