The author is deeply grateful to Terence Byrnes, whose continuing support helped bring this book to fruition and whose criticisms and suggestions helped shape it.
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Portions of Chapter vii appeared in a different form in The Moosehead Anthology (Montreal: DC Books, 1989).
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