curiouser and curioser

[Mark Kohut]

Perhaps one might say, the Looking Glass World coexists with the tower
in the sense that Rob Jackson recently articulated?
 
Rob Jackson wrote: "Ultimately, though, it's not a question of either/or. Both possibilities (coincidence, deliberate allusion) are valid, and are meant to be valid."



 



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