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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