ATDDTA (8) Hypnadada (214-215)

[Keith]

I'm just looking at the whole scene through the eyes of Deuce's  
'employer', who very much questions the reality of what is presented  
as having 'happened' in Jeshimon. In the context of the novel, the  
question of which level of 'reality' we're in is a constant question.

If it is "all real," in this passage, is Webb really a corpse? Really  
dead?

On May 4, 2007, at 8:46 AM, David Morris wrote:

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.