Digest urth.v022.n029

David Duffy · 25 Jan 1999, 03:14 · from urth-v0023.mbox · original

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From: David Duffy <davidD at qimr.edu.au>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v022.n029
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:14:18 +1000 (EST)
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 CRCulver at aol.com wrote:
>=20
> 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).=20

David Duffy.

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