AtDDtA(15): As If in a Dream

[Dave Monroe]

   "As if in a dream, they would come to recall attending Candlebrow
U. not as visitors to a summer Conference but as full-time music
students ..." (AtD, Pt. II, p. 418)


Again, what IS diegetically "real" here?  Are the Chums of Chance a
boys' airship crew who dream they are a harmonica marching band, or
are they "really" a marching band who dream they're an airship crew?
Why IS the episode here?  ANYTHING in this chapter?

Tore?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116677

John?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116679

Mark?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116680

David?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116685

David?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116690

Anyone?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116535

Help!  Let me know.  Thanks ...