In Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, the conclusion of the dream sequence that is chronologically closest to the dream itself is a lexia entitled "Forfeit." The demonstration of the dream processor apparently fails and Provost Tate demands an explanation for the whole dream sequence. At the same time, the reader feels the same lack of understanding, having been plunked down into the sequence with (at best) a cursory introduction to what is going on (which goes something like this...). Thankfully an observer, Weinburger, is an empathic character, saying "I'm hopelessly confused." Upon clicking the words "hopelessly confused," the Garden takes the reader back to an epigram to the whole demonstration. (This is a screen that I did not encounter on my first reading of the dream sequence, though it could possibly appear the first time it is read.) The epigram, titled "Showtime," reads simply:

…an indeterminate heap of contradictory drafts…
-- "The Garden of Forking Paths"

The epigram suggests that this time around when the dream sequence is read, the thread will be contradictory to the one before. New events or symbols will appear, scenarios will resolve themselves in different ways, or Macarthur will wake up earlier. All versions of these dreams can not happen, so the new one will be an alternative that will (hopefully) explain the dream or answer Weinburger's complaint. The text teases the reader that he/she will conquer the confusion of forking paths, will eventually escape these choices if we tire of them, punningly reassuring us at one point that "This two shall pass."