I think I see what you're getting at. :) That's perfectly possible, especially since he would have no awareness that this is what he's doing.
I'm not sure, though, that during the night he and Alec sleep together that all of this isn't swept away and he is taken back to his original dream, and relates that dream to Alec.
Maurice had quite a negative view of the Classics, and wasn't completely immersed and obsessed by them in the same way Clive was, so I think it would have been relatively easy for him to cast aside any particular thoughts on the Classical meaning.
I really do believe that Maurice, through Alec, was able to see Friend in its true context.
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Date: 2009-08-16 09:34 pm (UTC)I'm not sure, though, that during the night he and Alec sleep together that all of this isn't swept away and he is taken back to his original dream, and relates that dream to Alec.
Maurice had quite a negative view of the Classics, and wasn't completely immersed and obsessed by them in the same way Clive was, so I think it would have been relatively easy for him to cast aside any particular thoughts on the Classical meaning.
I really do believe that Maurice, through Alec, was able to see Friend in its true context.