Reflections

[pecunium]

Something from this comment sort of demanded a reply.

getting your take on it was one of the first things I wondered about when the memos were released.

And that, my friends, is part of why I keep coming back to the topic. To quote Gilbert and Sullivan, I am "A Slave of Duty (and the Wikipedia entry is wrong... the New York performance was the second, and unauthorised).

All things being equal... I could probably contrive to ignore this shit. I know what I think of it, and I know, pretty much, that nothing all that new is likely to surface. If something all that new were to surface, it would make a much larger splash than these did.

But there are those who don't know, and there are those who want to know what someone who ought to know thinks. I am also prone to picking at scabs. Just how the decisions were reached intrigues me (I make my own sausage sometimes too).

But when I sat to do msg you and ask if you'd had the time to look over them... I found couldn't do that. If you wanted to talk about it or needed to talk aobut it, sign me up. But my military childhood and military spouse experience toldme that we don't ask our troops to talk about it. We don't pry.

I appreciate the not prying. I don't know (in the broader sense) if that level of not prying is a net gain. We might be better off if we thought we could talk about things.

This isn't as hard for me as you might think. I am not trying to don some suffering cloak of martyrdom. If I really didn't want to to go through this stuff, I wouldn't. I may have spent more time being thorough in the reading because I was planning to write about it (and even that missed some details which I have to go back to, there are some truly damning passages which don't relate to the specifics).

So, to all of you who wanted to know what I had to say... thank you. It makes it easier to do the work of reading. For not sending me a note, making it seem an onus, as opposed to a responsibilty I freely accepted, thank you as well.

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It was "The Pirates of Pinafore" whose activities led to this elaborate scheme for premiering the follow-up. The choice of pirates as the actual subject of said follow-up might, or might not, have had anything to do with this.