[ what barry doesn't want to accept: none of this is real. hadn't that been the entire point to the book? alice fell asleep, and dreamed a dream of the impossible. it's much like how barry often falls asleep and wakes up in his bed, waddles downstairs, and finds mom and dad sitting at the kitchen table. that's a dream he's had since he was eleven years old, and he still has it at twenty-six. ]
Or nothing's been powerful enough to puncture it yet.
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Or nothing's been powerful enough to puncture it yet.
[ or fast enough. ]