I was briefly tempted today to get some of the posthumous volumes out of the library, and then I realized I would never get through my chosen project, re-visiting the text that's so familiar, if I started haring off after *precursors*--critical discussions are a distraction but justifiable for the purpose. Also, the variants described in the essay above were, to my eye, quite properly left behind as drafts.

But I hadn't realized that was you, and I'll give it a read and see if it convinces me to put the volumes on my list for later. Probably much later, but all the same.