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Once we have unpicked this single tour, and close reading is always hard work, we can put this first mock-battle back into context - court belles and their beaux socialising at Hampton Court Palace near the end of Queen Anne's reign - and then see whether the card game tells us anything new about the players and whether this knowledge shapes our appreciation of Pope's verse satire, and hence the relevance of a Game Theory approach to Literature. Simon Fraser University British Columbia, Canada For the original article as well as all contributions to this debate, please check the Connotations website at . *Reference: Oliver R. Baker \"Pope's Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock,\" Connotations 17.2-3 (2007/2008): 210-37; Sean R. Silver \"The Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory/' Connotations 19.1-3 (2009/2010): 203-228. [...]many earlier reconstructors' assumptions of more than one tour and a suppressed round of discards in this tour masked a number of playing alternatives that Pope's contemporary audiences might have appreciated. 2 Throughout this paper I have deliberately used terms in common, albeit informal usage which have their roots in gambling.

LCol Regis Vaillancourt is Senior Pharmacist in the Canadian Forces (CF) and senior advisor to the Canadian Forces Surgeon General on pharmacy issues. He also works part-time as Chief Pharmacist of Ottawa's Montfort Hospital (a university teaching hospital), and he puts in several hours a week as a consulting pharmacist at a community pharmacy in Gatineau (Hull), Quebec. That's in addition to his duties as president-elect of Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. LCol Vaillancourt serves on the Board of the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA). His many past honours include the Prix Louis-Hebert (2003) awarded by the Quebec Order of Pharmacists; CPhA Diabetes Educator Award (2000); and the Ontario Pharmacists' Association Mortar and Pestle of Merit (2000). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists and an Officer of the Order of Military Merit, conferred by the Governor General of Canada. Mr. [Mark Kearney] is a pharmacist at the on-campus Prescription Shop at Carleton University in Ottawa (since 2001), a consultant pharmacist to the Department of National Defence, and President of the Ottawa-Carleton Pharmacists' Association. He served two terms on the CPhA Board of Directors and is involved with other organizations.