Atdtda31: Bickering, 888-890

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Mon Jun 7 02:05:52 CDT 2010


On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Yashmeen on 879: "We can do whatever we can imagine. Are we not the world to
> come? Rules of proper conduct are for the dying, not for us." And then again
> on 886: "We all are [free to leave anytime]. That was always the point." And
> so to the new section, offering an overview of progress and routine: "Their
> plan had been ..." etc (888), the opening line signalling a failure of
> sorts, already. A few lines down the page: "and all at once everybody was
> reverting to type". By the end of the first paragraph: "... seldom venturing
> into questions of whatever should become of them".
>
> [...]

Thanks as always, Paul!



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