Thoughtful reading. You mention that PforS works better than LLtoM, due to its extreme compression; I think that perhaps the compression is also one of the notable aspects of W&M. This may be clearer if you look at Ship Rock, which was also published discretely, then in W&M.: On the one hand, it is a compressed, singular short work. At the same time, it is – as you imply about McElroy’s syntax – comprised of many, frequently metamorphic associations; what Edouard Glissant might call relations. This is to say that – remarkably, I think – like SR, PforS mysteriously assumes a place in the ecology of W&M’s fictive field. As large as that text is already, I am suggesting then that in the next edition, the few pages of this chapbook would fit nicely – at the same time as it serves (yes?) as a distinct draft of McElroy’s wonderful prose. I am greedy, though, and like you thirstily await (his short stories and) water work!