VLVL Takeshi

[Terrance]

> 
> But I'd be interested to hear what you do make of the description of the
> plane ride and airport scene (158-161), the woman in the draped white gown
> in particular, which was being discussed before this sidetrack.

Hunter S. Thompson has been mentioned. 

Looking at the airplane to airport episode phantasmagorically, the young
women in the white gown appears to be the product of a narcotically
saturated brain's mood shift. 

It's difficult to say because we don't know if we should attribute the
hallucination (if it is in fact an illusion) to Takeshi's chronic abuse
of drugs, the vibrating palm and his fear-of-death paranoia, his belief
that he is already dead (complicated by his belief in his personal 
"immunity" Fariña's  _Been Down So Long_), his suicidal tendencies (if a
Californian-Japanese former Zero Pilot can be said to have such
tendencies ...cross-cultural misconceptions), jetlag, sleep deprivation,
or this or that and the other thing too & Co. 

However, the women tells him to watch (Dave Monroe might want to run
this one through that dictionary program ... stay awake ... , but I read
"watch to mean "check"). And, for whatever reason (counter indications
in  the miasma he has made of his brain?) he does check the paranoia.
The women disappears and so does the paranoia. 

I don't know what "regular features" are? 

Sorry, can make much more it than that just now. 

Thanks for the sidetracking, 

T