BtZ42: on the road to Greenwich

[Ray Easton]

I am unsure how meaningful 'ontological questions' about fiction are in any 
case (and by this category I mean to include even such apparently 
straightforward questions as "How old is Gertie McDowell?"), but surely 
here, in a novel that begins with a dream dreamt (apparently) by a 
fantasist-surrogate, 'ontological questions' would seem to be especially 
difficult to answer.


On March 25, 2016 3:10:55 PM Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:


>  GR has so many dreams, fantasies, and more or less
> explicit hallucinations that the question "Did X 'really happen' or did
> character Y imagine it?" doesn't carry the binary implications it does for
> most fiction.


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