Webb Traverse

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 15:39:55 CDT 2007


On 4/18/07, Daniel Harper <daniel_harper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 15:11, you wrote:
> > Daniel,
> >
> >   I am convinced, are you?, that ATD was being written while TRP was writing Mason & Dixon...he has many thematic referrals...
> >
>
> At the very least he designed the two to work together after-the-fact. I'd say it's likely that the two were at least originally conceived of as companion pieces, and that it was intended that many elements of M&D would only become truly clear after one has read ATD.

Would you care to elaborate?  So far I haven't read anything in AtD
that illuminates MD, but I'd like to hear how it has for you.

David Morris



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