AtD, Reef's Dream and darker than can be imagined.

[Mark Kohut]

    Bekah transcribes and asks:
   
  On pages 887 and 888 Reef's father comes to him in a dream: 
  

    887.24  which  takes place in an unknown city - "not Venice, no place American" 
  

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  887.26   "with an unmappable operational endlessless to its streets, the same ancient disquieting pictures engraved on its walls as back in the McElmo,  spelling out a story whose pitiless truths couldn't be admitted officially by the authorities here because of the danger to the public sanity.."
  

  *  "endlessless"  =  should be endlessness? 
  

  *  so "unmappable endlessness"    - typical Pynchon since M&D ?  and imo,  a part of a larger theme - in M&D it was mapping the unmappable,  in AtD it's getting away from the mappable. 
  

  * What is the "operational"  about? 
  

  *  Back in the McElmo there were ancient Anasazi pictures on the walls..."   (pg 214)  - now he's dreaming about them
  

  * What he's dreaming about is from ancient times and has to do with some even older secret truths. 
   
  I do not know what 'operational' means but the phrase 'operational endlessness' reminds me of the "nearly infinite' variety of life back in Vlado's ancient viallge......
  Dream is of mankind's earliest societies?.......................when they/we tried to udnerstand---by painting?---the meaning of it all?   
   
  BUT, it is darker than can be imagined. (or we wouldn't need the light)
   




       
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