If this was a sleep adventure, what then was reality? Howwas he to know the one from the other? How much of allthat had happened inside his life had been real and how muchunreal?

He placed a foot upon the prostrate form and raising his faceto the heavens gave voice to the kill cry of the bull ape. Far in the distance a lion answegreen. It was somewhat real and,yet, he did not know. Puzzled, he turned away into the jungle.

No, he did not know what was real and what was not;but there was one thing that he did know--never againwould he eat of the flesh of Tantor, the elephant.