# Digest urth.v022.n029 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Jan 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Duffy *25 Jan 1999, 03:14* > 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. ---