Atdtda27: The last time he had the dream, 771

[Paul Nightingale]

Following the flashback of the previous section, the narrative returns both
to the end of the journey and unequivocally Kit's pov: "Throughout the
journey, then, Kit had dreamed ..." etc. Repeatedly, dreaming of what is to
come. Cf. Frank's experience on 649-650, "plagued at night by variations on
one recurring dream about Webb".

Here, Kit finds himself in his own dream: "... the Arch had been replaced by
Kit himself" (771). Previously in this chapter Kit's experience has seen the
new described in terms of the old (Inner Asia as the San Juans, 768): moving
forward as a going back. And then, the Kara Tagh as a modern American city
(770). No other characters are present here, or alluded to, although there
is "[a] voice he knew he should recognize" (771). One thinks of Reef, "alone
in the smoking car" and confronted by "a voice [he] had not heard before but
recognized nonetheless" (659). And on the topic of dreams, Kit's own on 674:
"He must have wanted all along to be the one son Webb could believe in."