VV(5) - Impersonations & Dreams

[Terrance]

> 
> > Impersonations are shared. Dreams are all by
> > yourself.
> 
>         are you sure? once heard somebody convincingly reporting that he met
>         with someone intentionally in a shared dream. guess it requires some
>         kind of "dream-control" in the sense of kenneth grant or carlos
>         castaneda. anyone for more?


Not much more to say, not if Irony is out, but of course
I've said too much too much, but dreams are never all by
yourself in Pynchon. Stuff gets out in the the spaces and it
comes into dreams, Mason talks in his sleep an Indian
language he has never spoken nor heard. Mondaugen has this
problem, something about all those attenuated Ghosts, living
in a world where the case is not all that is the case,
signals, spherics, languages, the human voice divine from
Carl Barington to the those Indians Mason hasn't yet met, to
the Hottentot dialect Mondaugen can't hear, but of course
there is the Tube, the radio signals, the Voyeur's dreams,
the dreams that are not ours because the paranoid condition
of control controls the archetypes, the stuff that dreams
are made on, Man.