curiouser and curioser

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Have dropped off the wagon again. That is, the COL49 read
wagon. (Gotten past binging, apparently.)

Just want to point out that however Alice-like Oedipa's guest
gets, there is a crucial difference. Wonderland is distinct
from the Carroll novel's "reality level" where Alice can more
or less safely return after her adventure. Wonderland is an
example of a "separate", "unsuspected" world whose existence
Oedipa at one point considers necessary (p 86, Picador pbk).
But Tristero is rather something that inseparably weaves
itself into the curiouser-getting "reality level" of COL49 -
this irrespective of whether she hallucinates it or not.


Heikki