R: MDMD(7): Dreams and Boundaries

[tommasopincio]

Don't you think the whole ch. 7 may be read under the following light: "D'ye
not the feel sometimes that ev'rything since the Fight at the Sea has
been,--not a Dream, yet..." (75)?
Dream is clearly a boundary dividing life and death here and the two ghosty
byddies are now in a place (cape Town) which is not properly a place but "an
Element in which to be immers'd" and "to be lost, without hope of Salvation"
(59).
This is also a circular chapter--typical of Mr. Pynchon.
It starts with the preclusion of any salvation and closes with the image of
Resurrection as a chance to be redeem'd (saved) from the service of
Darkness. The chance is finally lost since history is what it is--it likes
death so much as mr. LeSpark reminds us (76). Maybe that's why M&D are
always on the verge of passing over in these last first pages.
On the other hand, from the very beginning of the novel, our storytellers
(the text, Rev., and Pynchon himself) seem to be engaged in the attempt of
avoiding the "Secular Consequences" of history.
Maybe they would like to "live their Dreams (lives)"--everyone in his own
way--which is actually possible considering the big lack of "historical"
information about M&D lives (dreams).
Many dreams are actually possible. Many speculations too, of course.
Nothing may be definitively excluded. And that could explain a cartoon-like
presence like L.E.D.