CoL49 Group Reading - temporal correction

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sat May 18 06:54:55 UTC 2024


- they’ve been married 5 years

——— I mean 3 ———-


- Pierce had been speculating for 10 years

- Pierce and Oedipa were over a year before she married Maas - so their
breakup would’ve been 6 years back - if it went on from college the whole
time quite a lengthy item (4 years if he went right from college into
speculation)

——— no, their breakup would’ve been 4 years back
& 6 years from the start of Pierce’s business


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