MDDMD: Dreaming in Kansas?

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In a message dated 9/21/01 7:29:21 PM, jbor at bigpond.com writes:

<< It strikes me that the opening chapter is "realist" while the third chapter
is "fabulist", the letters of introduction between M & D marking this abrupt
transition from the narrative "present" to an unreliable and admittedly
subjective "memory", a memory owned by one who is self-consciously under
some pressure to tweak the tales which emanate therefrom so that they
straddle a rather wide rift between titillation and instruction and thus
wander ever further from "Truth". >>

Much like that other tale-teller, and W.C., the "mnemonic" Fields:

   "Ah yes, I remember it well..."

And Wicks does represent a plurality of fields, of sorts- the narrative field-
around which a context is elaborated (embroidered?), and the imaginative
field, through which the reader and Narrator share and exchange energy, even
to and including the purchase price, to name just two of the more ambient.