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As the narrative is progressing, do you believe Travis is still a mentally unbalanced or are his fears being substantiated? 

Will Clarke said in response to our questions that he envisioned a James Bond-like connection between Vishnu and the spy:

" I began to see all these parallels between Vishnu and James Bond. 

Vishnu is the Preserver, the One who wakes up from sleeping on a bed of cobras while his wife rubs his feet. Vishnu only wakes up to save the world. Bond has a similar situation. All these "goddesses" lounging with him and then he has to "wake-up" and save the world."

I have never managed to stay awake through a Bond movie, so the connection came as a suprise to me.  Did anyone makes this connection before Will revealed it? 

In reply to #1:

I do think that Travis's fears and premonitions are proving to be real. However, I don't think this means he is not mentally unbalanced. Both could be at work here.

In reply to #3: Good point.  One of my favorite quotes is from Heller's Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."  Think I'll pose this to Will to see if he had this in mind at all...