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[jbor]

I won't quibble with you over the word "guilt". Zoyd's starting to realise
that what he's been doing all these years is dishonest, co-opted, not right,
and the hints of his unease about it are present throughout the chapter, as
I catalogued. I'm not sure what alternative reading of Zoyd's dream you're
saying Pynchon *is* suggesting?

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on 20/7/03 10:00 AM, pynchonoid wrote:

> I don't read it that way. Zoyd's dream -- even it it
> is a wake-up call from Zoyd's own conscience, as you,
> if not Pynchon, suggest here -- doesn't communicate or
> evoke guilt.  Zoyd gets up and proceeds to take care
> of his agenda for the day. Nothing in his demeanor or
> action to suggest he feels guilt at all.
> 
> jbor:
>> The "message" which those dream-pigeons are bringing
>> him in the opening
>> paragraph of the novel, a message which he
>> "understood" is "almost surely
>> connected" to his receiving mental-disability
>> benefits and the way he has to
>> qualify for these, is a wake-up call from Zoyd's own
>> conscience.
>