Humpty

Humpty Dumpty reappears, as the dreamer contemplates the eggs he (she?) will have for breakfast.

It is interesting how the deepest, most complex, most erudite cultural/historical references mix liberally (in the dream stream) with one-dimensional allusions such as Humpty Dumpty (who, prior to Lewis Carroll, was merely a four-line poem evidently referring to a cannon in the English Civil War) and Mutt and Jeff (a few pages further on). Humpty Dumpty comes back in the dream again and again, as someone who fell and was destroyed; the dreamer is obsessively stuck on this four-line nonsense poem, like a bit of a song you can't get out of your head.