ATDTDA (17): Gone sour in your old age, 480-481

[Paul Nightingale]

Lake's dream is a way to erase what has happened, not so much rewrite
history as go back to a time when it hadn't yet happened. Comparable,
perhaps, to the "memory of a memory" (84), Veikko's way of going back. Here,
relations with mother and brothers are reconstructed; Webb, however, is
absent, an empty space emphasised by Mayva's song and the subsequent
exchange, all of which imposes the present on this dreamed past.