VV(5) - Impersonations & Dreams

[Michael Perez]

Jill wrote:
"And as far as stories go, are any of them intentional? You don't have
to admit to dreams though. Impersonations are shared. Dreams are all by
yourself."

Another distinction we may want to add here is the difference between
impersonations, dreams, and masquerades.  I think what David was trying
to get at was that impersonations as they are in the chapter at hand
are meant to be more than mere masquerades which would not be used to
attempt to convince anyone that the masquerader was the person
masqueraded. An impersonation is more akin to possession.  Stencil's
"forcible dislocation of personality" is definitely intentional, but as
for it being successful, we can only guess, I suppose.  Stencil here
though mixes his conscious impersonations and dreams, of course,
thereby adding to the confusion.  As his name implies though, no matter
how deeply the other personality possesses, we can assume that nothing
is added outside the stencil's edge, even though Stencil is one of the
characters of his own creation.  However, the amorphous mass that may
refer to itself in the first person, as opposed to the assumed identity
of "Stencil" which is referred to in the third person, does not exist,
I think we can safely say.  Stencil masquerades as as an amorphous mass
that impersonates an an identity known as Stencil.  His dreams fill in
the gaps.

Michael



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