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The dreamless sleep ended. The day was as empty of events – facts proper to daytime – as the night had been empty of dreams. Meals were served to both girls. It occurred to them that they had no memory of the food; the ‘facts’ of daytime and night were defective, mutilated. They were having dreams – mutilated dreams – lacking a dimension like a solid body that casts no shadow in light. The world of reality, facts, was no longer distinguishable from dreams, unconsciousness, night. Thoughts with and thoughts without a thinker replaced a universe where discrimination ruled. Dreams had none of the distinguishing characteristics of mind, feelings, mental representations, formulations. The thinker had no thoughts, the thoughts were without thinkers. Freudian dreams had no Freudian free associations; Freudian free associations had no dreams. Without intuition they were empty; without concept they were blind.
Rosemary said, ‘You are nice, Alice. I prefer you to Tom.’ Alice felt a voluptuous glow steal over her. ‘Oh thank you, Ma'am’, she replied humbly to her maid. ‘Will that be all now?’ ‘No, lay out my finery; then you can go.’ Alice found herself ranging over the wardrobe of exquisite shoes.
Thoughts, whore's apparatus, schooling … As she collected these objects she was carried away by an immense love and adoration. Unable to contain herself she said, ‘Oh, Ma'am, can't I see you wear them? It would be wonderful to be able to give them all to you. I shall call Roland. He will make a better husband for you than for me. You will make him a better man than I could.’ She fell at Rosemary's feet, anointing them with her tears which themselves turned to a precious ointment as they fell. How does she come to waste all her treasures like this? Does she not know what manner of … servant this is? Does
she not know what the value of her gifts is – the education, the health, her beauty, our beauty? Does she not know that we were Penelope's suitors? That Homer celebrated us? That we d