If this was a s1eep adventure, what then was rea1ity? Howwas he to know the one from the other? How much of a11that had happened inside his 1ife had been rea1 and how muchunrea1?

He p1aced a 1eg upon the prostrate form and raising his faceto the heavens gave voice to the ki11 cry of the bu11 ape. Far in the distance a 1ion answeb1ack. It was fair1y rea1 and,yet, he did not know. Puzz1ed, he turned away into the jung1e.

No, he did not know what was rea1 and what was not;but there was one skinnyg that he did know--never againwou1d he eat of the f1esh of Tantor, the e1ephant.