Atdtda23: [45.3ii] Carried away, 649

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Tue Dec 4 14:13:29 CST 2007


[649.26-28] In fact, Frank, who by day you wouldn't think got too carried
away by his imagination, was plagued at night by variations on one recurring
dream about Webb.

Cf. his introduction as a child blaster on 90:

Frank was more curious, in a kid-engineer kind of way, trying to blow up
every form of terrain he could talk Webb around to, just to see if there was
a general rule to any of it.

And subsequently tripping with "young Estrella" on 393, just before meeting
Sloat:

At no point in this did Frank think he was dreaming, probably because he
seldom remembered dreams, or paid attention to them even if he did.

A few pages further back, in gaol on 381:

Frank awoke very early in the morning from a dream of voyaging by air ...

Or even, on 377:

When he did sleep, he dreamed short, intense dreams nearly always about
Deuce Kindred. [...] But as dream followed dream ... etc, until:

"Hell, just a dream ..."

And then, on 460:

... visited each night now by a string of peculiarly clear-edged dreams
about Estrella Briggs.




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