Hal's recurring "gargantuan tennis court" dream (the Moms in the stands)

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texture · YDAU, recurring

When: YDAU-era, a still-recurring dream ("every now and then still recurs")
What: The nightmare the bongs originally suppressed: Hal stands at the baseline of a football-field-sized court whose boundary lines are "as complex and convolved as a sculpture of string," before a silent attentive crowd and battalion of linesmen; the Moms sits stage-left under a white sun-umbrella, fist raised "in total unconditional support." Play is "all hypothetical"; Hal never sees the opponent. A signature Hal dream keyed to maps/boundaries and maternal watchfulness.