From: "michelle phil lewis-king" <king.lewis-AT-easynet.co.uk>
Subject: RE: 'Total  Recall's' Traum
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:25:13 -0000




This is a description of Eduard's Traum (Edwards dream) by Wihelm Buch
written in 1891 which could describe 'Total Recall'

" It is a world without a heart, without kindness or love, and the people
inhabiting it seem, therefore to be weightless and bodyless. Like ghosts
they flit past us in quick succession. In this world, from which mind and
soul are absent, no intimate ties exist between human beings. Instead they
push, beat, betray, and destroy each other. Occasionally, these "filmstrips"
seem to form a brief sequence as when the cheater of a moment ago becomes
the person cheated. But the moral perspective is by no means prominent
enough to furnish an over-all meaning."

 Wolfgang Kaiser. 'The Grotesque in Art and Literature.'