How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"I am Morpheus, king of dreams," he says, and the speakers carry his deep voice for blocks. "We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew. We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? Or are you but a part of mine? Welcome my brother, Phantasmos, for this is surely a phantasmagoria, a fantasy world, and we are all players." (18.75)
Here's another theory for you: We all just live in dreams, and we'll never know whether they're our dreams or if we're in someone else's dream. Either that or this is all Cameron's dream, and we are starting to see the evidence of how much pot he really smokes… Your call, Shmoopers.
Quote #5
People drift in and out in my dream like actors in a play. Eubie comes to visit. He slips headphones on my ears so I can hear "Cypress Grove Blues," and I want to tell him that I've been to New Orleans, that I've seen Junior Webster, that I played bass for him, but it's a dream, and the words won't come. (21.49)
Is this a dream? Or has Cam momentarily regained consciousness to reality? Most likely it's the latter—as the reader we can see that a visit from Eubie is a far more realistic occurrence than fighting off fire giants and traveling with a Viking god disguised as a yard gnome.
Quote #6
"Can anybody else see you besides me?" I ask.
"I suppose they could if they wanted to, but maybe what they see isn't what you see," Dulcie answers in her typically cryptic fashion. (22.9-10)
Once again Dulcie is throwing out philosophical bombs and then just shrugging her shoulders. She's pretty good at making us contemplate the nature of perspective and then acting like it's no big deal.