<i>On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Lee Berman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br>This quasi-dream/quasi-reality essence is exactly what I think WOlfe was going<br>
for. He doesn't WANT us to be able to fully understand it.</i><br><br><br>Yeah, or he wants us to 'understand' in a more 'mystical' mode - mystery for the sake of 'enlightenment' (even if ineffable to some degree) rather than mystery for the sake of bafflement and darkening. It seems to me that it's a <i>growth</i> process to begin to be able to perceive and ingest the many levels of reality Wolfe throws at you at once in the text. It can about break you, but if you survive you'll be fuller, weightier, wiser.<br>
<br><br><i>But you're right, there's a dreamlike quality to everything about the<br>
Neighbors (and a fever-like quality to the inhumi).<br><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes</font></i>
<br><br><br>Very nicely put.<br><br><br>-DOJP<br><br><br>