VV(13) - Dream a Little One for Me

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>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
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> (254) if dreams are only waking sensation first stored and later operated
> on, then the dreams of a voyeur can never be his own.
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> Mondaugen's Story is not his own.  M. has been lured progressively by a
> coalition into Foppl's dream of 1904.

Yes, and when Kurt becomes sick he drifts in and out of consciousness and
the edges between dream and reality become quite blurred in the narrative.
But back at 243-4 it's pretty obviously Kurt's own dream:

    ... He fell asleep and dreamed, for the first time since he'd left it,
    of Munich.
      ... The season in Munich, under the Weimar Republic and the
    inflation, had followed since the war a constantly rising curve ...
                                                    [243.19]

Before that Munich had been described as "a city dying of abandon, venality,
a mark swollen with fiscal cancer." [236.2 up]

The immediate cause of Munich's slide into economic Depression and psychic
degeneration was the Treaty of Versailles, and though this isn't directly
referenced in the text the couple of scoffing references to the "League of
Nations" indicate that Pynchon's general knowledge of European history
between the wars was pretty astute.

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