Dear Sir,

Despite the strenuous efforts that both Merton Gill and I characteristically make towards the utmost of clarity in the presentations of our views and despite the mutual goodwill and serious intention that we bring to understanding the nature of our agreements and our disagreements, it seems that we each feel that the other seriously misunderstands and misrepresents his viewpoint. Let me explain.

Gill states that there is an important similarity and an important difference between his (current) position and Alexander's but that I do not present either one correctly. The similarity is that each espouses a two-person view of the analytic situation; the difference is that Alexander