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selves) as part of their self-world, self-culture, idio-occult negotiations. Once "semantically
ready" (Dennett) this way, perception is motivated to confirm facts, meaning, as Baudrillard
points out, that the model replaces the actual.
21 Butler, "Postmodernism," 141.
22 Though one might argue that some fictional somebody in the story-locale of "Lull"
might or must have the explanation behind the strange orchard house, since no one in the story
knows, the possibility has a null value. Dennett demonstrates this significant textual nullity with
a similar, tongue-in-cheek question for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: "Our tendency
to suppose that there has to be a fact of the matter to settle such questions is like the naive
reader's supposition that that there has to be an answer to such questions as: Did Sherlock
Holmes have eggs for breakfast on the day that Dr. Watson met him. Conan Doyle might have
put that detail into the text, but he didn't, and since he didn't, there is simply no fact of the matter
about whether those eggs belong in the fictional world of Sherlock Holmes." Daniel C. Dennett,
Consciousness Explained (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1991), 408.
23 Jeffrey Ford, "The Yellow Chamber," Trampoline. An Anthology. Kelly Link, ed.
(Northampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2003).
24 These years would be impossible, as Ernest Keen pointed out, for conscious
phenomena (in this case, the collaborative mental fancy of the researches that, at this point in
"The Yellow Chamber," creates Threbansch) do not adhere to Newtonian laws. Neither would
they adhere to time, as this chapter will later argue.
25 Doug Lain's "The Suburbs of the Citadel of Thought," Last Week's Apocalypse (San
Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2006) and Jeffrey Ford's "Bright Morning," Feeling Very84
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