MDMD: Am I still dreaming?

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> Writing is an attempt to impose conformity (that is to say order, without
> which communication is impossible) even when - as is the case with Pynchon -
> writing also expresses the impossibility of attaining any such goal. 

Writing, David Lodge says, "especially writing of narrative,
is a process of constant choice and decision making: to make
your hero do this rather than that, to describe the action
from this angle rather than that. How can one decide such
questions except in terms of some overall design--which is
in some sense a design upon one's putative reader."