V2nd chapter 9 Kalkfontein

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Kurt's ability to experience other people's dreams/memories is shared by Pirate Prentice in GR, although Pirate's a true psychic.  Another sign that Pynchon dug deep into V. when he was writing GR.  Kurt seems to be helped along by his sferics antennae.  He tells Weissmann he can only receive, not transmit.  Weissmann thinks the messages come from Them, but Kurt's actually receiving messages from ghosts - the ghosts contained in Foppl's memory of the 1904 Genocide.  The Bondelswaartz are right about the antennae being associated with ghosts. 

Laura 

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>"But his own musical commentary on dreams had not included
>the obvious and perhaps for him the indispensable: that if
>dreams are only waking sensation first stored and later
>operated on, then the dreams of a voyeur can never be his
>own."   V..270
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>"Whether we like it or not that war destroyed a kind of
>privacy, perhaps the privacy of dream." (V..263)
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>"Franz loved films but this was how he watched them, nodding
>in and out of sleep." (GR.159)
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>"He kept dozing off and being brought awake by brief
>chuckling sounds from the loudspeaker. They sounded to
>Mondaugen, half in dream, like that other chilling laugh,
>and made him reluctant to go back to sleep. But he continued
>to fitfully." (V..267)
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>"then the thing in the sky was right for it-all these coming
>down, filtering through to populate his dreams, so that in
>the morning he'd never know which had been real, which he'd
>hallucinated." (S.L. TSI.149)
>
>Mason talks an unknown Indian language in his sleep and the
>Indians claim "we dreamed of you but you never dreamed of
>us."
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>Oedipa might just be hallucinating, and the old man tells
>her stories of Indian Raids-Grover's an expert on Indian
>Raids, King Philip-mixed with Porky Pig cartoons and
>Politics. What are we to make of a character that ties a
>balloon with a giant Z painted on it and rigs up a device to
>maintain a Dream/Awake State?
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>"Dreams are like a magic cloak
>Woven by the fairy folk,
>Covering from top to toe,
>Keeping you from Winds and woe.  (V..269)
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>"Sueno de no morir es el que infundes
>a los que beben de tu dulce calma,
>sueno de no morir ese que dicen
>culto a la muerte.                      Miguel de Unamuno,
>Salamanca
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>"And should the Angel come this night
>To fetch your soul away from light,
>Cross yourself, and face the wall:
>Dreams will help you not at all.        (V..269)
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>"and dreams that could never again be entirely safe."  (S.L.
>TSI.193)
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>"if no one has seen me then am I really here at all; and as
>a sort of savory, if I am not here then where are all these
>dreams coming from, if dreams are what they are."
>(Mondaugen, V..274)
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>"'haunted by a profound disgust for everything European,
>Mondaugen went out alone into the bush" (GR.403)
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>"Is it any use for me to tell you that all you believe real
>is illusion?"  (GR.165)
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>"Que es la vida? Un frenesi.
>Que es la vida? Una ilusion.
>Ina sombra, una ficcion,
>Y el mayor bien es pequeno;
>Que toda la vida es sueno,
>Y los suenos, sueno son.        Calderon de la Barca
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>Roe, Roe, Row your boat gently
>gently down to dream
>terri blee terri blee terri blee
>noffin but a scream