ATDDTA (8) Hypnadada (214-215)

[David Morris]

I gotta say that calling ANYTHING in Pynchon's novels "just all a
dream (didn't happen except in some one's brain)" is problematic.
There are SO many things in his books that couldn't literally happen,
I think it counterproductive to try to relegate anything as less than
real (unless we are specifically told to do so).  Pynchon is forever
using qualifiers like "it might have happened,"  always questioning
the literal reality of the things he's describing.  I accept it all as
real.

And, anyway, if this were just a dream of Reef's, it still should be
having a profound affect on his waking life.

David Morris

On 5/4/07, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> .....only a dim idea of how he'd got there (214:6)
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> It might have been the lack of sleep (214:15)
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> undergoing down here in the world Webb's change of status (214:31)
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> reading in the dark (215:7)
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> dual existence, both in Socorro and the Pole (215:12-13)
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> seeing the Chumps in the sky (15-23)
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> The whole Jeshimon section, and its aftermath as Reef heads out to
> Telluride are very dreamlike, almost like the whole thing could be a
> nochecita-consciousness vision, a reverie in Reef's mind rather than
> a 'real' event. He's in a twilight state, half awake/half asleep,
> imprisoned in Socorro/on top of the world.
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> http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/163_hypnagogia.shtml
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