Pirate's Gift

[Paul Mackin]

Was the whole novel a dream?

Can't any  novel with dreamlike (cinamatic) qualities be read as a dream? 
With or without an explicit dreamer/narrator. But what's going on in the 
dream (the book)? For me, the dreamer or dreamer surrogate should be 
awake at least part of the time. If Pirate is only dreaming he's awake near 
the bottom of the second page, when does he wake up? In other words do 
the parentheses balance? Any LISP programmers out there? 

Come to think of it, the continuing-dream theory would explain the 
presence of bananas in wartime London. He was only dreaming . . .

				Pablo