I very much enjoyed my recent visit to the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie in the Freie Universität Berlin, and am very grateful for the time and thought that had gone into preparing for my visit. The resulting discussion was very productive and in-depth, and I found the written commentary very helpful in thinking through my ideas about entanglement and in developing them further. In answering the discussion points fully I would end up writing another book! I do not feel I can do justice to all the points raised in this relatively brief response. Rather I would like to react to some of the issues selectively, and to make some general points that deal with broad groups of comments, for example those that deal in some way with directionality and the possibility for dis-entanglement.
