V2nd, C3 Dream within a Dream--Poe

[Mark Kohut]

"A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published 
in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem questions the 
way one can distinguish between reality and fantasy, asking, "Is all that we see 
or seem but a dream within a dream?"



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 11:46:29 AM
Subject: Re: V2nd, C3

Not only Alice, but the mathametician who made her (or dreamed of
making her spread her thighs) is stencilized here; we begin with  a
dream, "stencil would dream" within a dream "that it had all been a
dream" and that he was no longer dreaming (Bailey's Dedaelus?) "and
that now he had awakened", then he does awaken, for "real."  We are
definitely not in Kansas anymore. But the quest, and the quest must
multiply, from Home, to Wizard, to Brain, to Heart, to Courage, to
Broom, to the land of from many one, is His own simple minded literal
persuit in the tradition of Graves and Frazer, or so he thinks, but
he's wrong. The penis he thought was his own rises, like Benny's under
the news, and like a guided rocket, goes bodly where the master sits
on a wall making meaning from words.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I forgot about tweedledee/dum in section I of chapter 3: An observer and a 
>ridiculous pair of look-alike fat Englishmen (one called Tweed) who burst into 
>silly fights & songs (v. tweedledee's poem); one tweed is compared to a statue 
>(v. both tweedles); they walk/sing arm in arm (v. tweedles dancing hand in hand 

>with Alice)--plus the chessboard setting...
>
> Sorry to be so thick, but does "Through the Looking Glass" keep showing up in 
>this chapter as we dive down the rabbit hole of Stencil's imagination?
>
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:42:14 -0400, Michael (michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com) 
>wrote:
>> [...] Fat and Tweed
>
>
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