BtZ42 Gravity's dreaming

[Mark Kohut]

In order to make a further point, I have to say that
Monte and Others who first wrote of Pirate's dreaming
as the opening of GR, must be right as progressive knotting into
the book even more closely (for me) shows.
Prentice awakes with a feeling of metal in his head. D'uh!

it now strikes me this way too: in a new(er) essay on Lot 49 which
I read while rereading that work, I think it is the estimable Molly Hite who
said this: So many of the scenes, esp the crucial ones of Oedipa under the
bridge
and dancing with the anarchists, are 'real' within the context of Lot 49
but are
ALSO very dreamlike in mood and meaning. P's kind of surrealism?

She--or I-- link this to the logic of non-exclusiveness, Both/And within
the very
writing of Lot 49. I believe she says this is one meaning of the auction's
open-endedness:
all possible results are true at once at the end.

Anyway, now Pirate's dream seems to me to ALSO be the narrator's 'objective'
presentation of part of TRP's vision, true and a true dream,both-and (if
that is not being
too too by half)....akin to the sequences w Oedipa when we get some of
TRP's vision, evidently.

Pirate's other dreaming in GR is not quite like that, correct? To be
determined when we get there.
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