I've found the resources available in this novel for the changing of time, place, and reality to be staggering. Though we're in these 9 days we've been so very many places. Along these lines, thinking about this book in relation to more traditional novels is kinda like comparing cartoons and sitcoms. The Simpsons can go anywhere and do anything while it is tough for Seinfeld to incorporate too much chronological, geographic, or supernatural flexibility. GR seems to move effortessly and oftentimes so seamlessly it is hard to notice between places, times, and realities. We have so many episodes, of course, and these make it easy to move around and restart, but the fluidity and reactiveness of the narrative enables this movement as well. A bottle of ether spills and the fumes not only reach roger and the doctor but Pynchon as well.

Pirate's ability to inhabit the dreams of others is instrumental to this ease of movement. The only barrier to the dreamworld is that between self and other.

Did anyone else think of Gogol's "The Nose" during the adenoid attack?