Open The Multiple Levels Of Perception

[s~Z]

The short answer to Doug's heartfelt question is that, for me, the
dissertation abstract evoked the image of "a wonderful Card Table which
exhibits the cheaper Wavelike Grain known in the Trade as Wand'ring Heart,
causing an illusion of Depth into which for years children have gaz'd as
into the illustrated Pages of Books...along with so many hinges, sliding
Mortises, hidden catches, and secret compartments that neither the twins nor
their sister can say they have been to the end of it."

"an immersion in these 'levels of perception' forces the reader into a state
of perpetual flux, shifting perspectives and responding to a text flooded
with a plurality of voices and interpretations; in order to discern a
definitive reality the reader must define them, yet even as the reader tries
to do this the boundaries begin to break down and realities, identities and
perceptions start to merge, sending the reader reeling through an 'infinite
succession of levels' and dropping him through numerous 'false bottoms.' "