Whose dream is it?

[Mark Kohut]

if this opening is best seen as a dream, or dream-like, then I might see it
as a filmic 'dream", that is,
we get words to the effect throughout GR that this is all unfolding like a
film and we know NOW the ending
which might, Finnegan's Wake-like, riverrun us back to the beginning, so to
speak.

We don't know this as we start, as Monte sez, but there is something
real/reel yet set off against the really real--
when Pirate gets up 'his skull feeling made of metal". This suggests to me
that Pirate is getting 'dreamed' too.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Crazy thoughts as we start
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> Is Pirate in Slothrop's dream?  Whose dream/nightmare is it?  What is the
> connection of this dream to time, to Dante’s vision, to the holocaust, to
> Von Braun quote, to enzian’s rocket lost in time? To Joyc’s circular time?
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> Slothrop - Thomas  Ruggles Pynchon -   Porthos +L  Pynchon likes boys
> adventure fiction Porthos sounds like pork and port he liked food, wine, he
> was portly but bold .The added L moves Porthos from the heroic to the lazy,
> slothful. Protagonist from subject to object.
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> Porthos takes my thoughts to -The man in the Iron Mask- ( no one ever saw
> his face because it was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth.)(
> Wikipedia) Iron appears often in the first pages of Beyond the Zero along
> with velvet: “Above him lift girders old as an iron queen”  the lost souls
> in the iron train, “velvet black surfaces contain the movement:” “It is
> some vast, very old and dark hotel, an iron extension of the track ”“the
> evacuees are taken in lots, by elevator—a moving wood scaffold open on all
> sides, hoisted by old tarry ropes and cast-iron pulleys whose spokes are
> shaped like Ss. ”“His name is Capt. Geoffrey (“Pirate”) Prentice... His
> skull feels made of metal.”
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> Later in the novels others are contained in steel rockets/bombs as a
> result of insatiable lust both for revenge and submission.
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