GRGR 1, 2 redactions

[Cometman]

just some of the mistakes I've posted recently

>the Ted Williams
> 40-Year-Old-Hippie comic book and t-shirt

I think that should be "Ted Richards"

> 
> While we, the audiences, watch the vignettes, Pirate is riding in the
> Lagonda.  Presumably in his present-time, he's still dealing with the
> dreams of the "exiled Rumanian royalist" (p 12, ln 3 and 4) - that's
> speculation, but the phantasmagoria is 2nd nature to him and wouldn't
> occupy his full attention. 
> 

But I think he's actually singing and dancing, so maybe it would.  Or
is  that one of the scenes on the phantasmagoria?

Anyway, the scene for me reflects the reader vis a vis the book:
percolating in the background are one's own thoughts and routines, the
special talent one brings, and these rush to and fro overhead while the
story unfolds onscreen.  "You just sing the little song they taught
you" ("they" not being capitalized here, wonder why not?)

So, in a sense, the personal thoughts of the spectator map to the
extended flashbacks deepening the characterization of the role of the
actor onscreen.  

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> train tracks in cross section resemble an "I"

That's probably not true; anyway "tracks" comprise more than just the
rails.  The cross section of train tracks would include the ties and
probably some support

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> I searched p-list archive for phantasmagoria and found nothing
maybe I did it wrong.  Hard to imagine no reference at all, since the
whole book is something of a phantasmagoria