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Jim,

Bingo! I couldn't have a better reader for this one. Thanks for taking the time to catch the wordplay throughout. And thanks for helping me realize I haven't gone completely bonkers.

I’m an addict of both Thoreau and James Joyce. Both work extensively with etymological puns. I first saw “etym” in Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, where he suggests that television (or atomic bombs?) will cause "the abnihilisation of the etym.”

Gratefully,