Round and Flat/Slothrop and Bianca

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

(snip)

>
> In the end, though, you can't really be sure whether Slothrop is  
> dreaming or not. It can't positively be 'proven' whether the scene  
> is dreamed or real. The ontology of the scene is blurred, like so  
> much of GR, and in the end, the reader has to decide for him- or  
> herself what to believe. "Let the reader decide, let the reader  
> beware. Good luck." I've decided to at least doubt the reality of  
> Slothrop's sexual encounter with Bianca. The alternative hurts too  
> much....


Well reasoned analysis.

But in GR don't dreamed events come pretty close ontologically to  
awake events?

(that old bombed out mind remark)