Field: what am I missing?

As I mentioned in the last post, it fell to me to introduce the last two chapters in Part III of Field — namely,  Ch. 17 in which he rounds out his key technical construction, and Ch. 18, 'What Has Been Done'. And having got to the end of Field's core presentation of his story, we are going to call it a day. Since it was the last meeting, I took my cue from Ch. 18 and offered some very quickly written reflections on what has (or rather hasn't) been achieved. Here they are. Comments more than ...