GRGR2: The Dream

[Adam J. Thornton]

> >From the opening pages, "Inside the carriage, which is built on several 
> levels, his sits in velveteen darkness, with nothing to smoke..."  
> (wouldn't Slothrop want a cigarette?) "secret entrances of rotted 
> concrete that only looked like loops of an underpass . . . certain 
> trestles of blackened wood" "velvet black surfaces contain the movement:  
> the smell is of old wood"

The wooden railway viaducts are peculiarly American, too.  England, always
having comparatively small rivers and little wood, built its railroad
bridges of stone, and later--the Menai Bridge, for instance (boil it in
wine!)--of iron.  Whereas, America, with its Endless Frontier full of
Indians (or at least, *an* Indian) and trees, and deep canyons, did the
wooden-viaduct thing.

I'm convinced.  Pirate is inside Slothrop's dream.

Adam
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