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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 CRCulver at aol.com wrote:
I'm re-reading PEACE, and this time I am approaching it with the knowledge that Weer is dead. I am puzzled, however, by the other characters of the book in the office of Dr. Van Ness in the novel's early pages. I do not know whether these characters are recreations out of Weer's memory, or perhaps fellow deceased persons awaked by the storm which resurrected Weer.
I think they are characters in a dream, based on those waiting in one or more actual visits to the doctor. WRT dreams and rooms, Lessingham in
The Worm Orouboros has the room (“name) he decides to spend the night in when he wants a dream from the gates of horn rather than ivory (or is that vv” -- cf Weer and the Persian room).
David Duffy.