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DREAMS

                                          February 19, 1992

Shedevil was asking about dreams...

Dreams seem to me to be
improvised as they go
along.

Things shift from one thing to another
to satisfy the needs of the current
scene without regard to the history of
what's gone before.


I find that the character's
in my dreams shuffle
around... my late father
will turn into John
McCarthy, or a sister may               I remember one dream in
turn into a girl friend, and            particular where I was
so on                                   having an incestuous affair
                                        with one of my "sisters"
                                        except that she looked like
                                        someone else, a girl I'd
                                        been chasing after...

                                        This was someone who had
                                        just been telling me
                                        something about how she was
                                        in love with her brothers
                                        and her problem was she
                                        couldn't find men like them.

The setting in my dreams
also shuffle around in the
same way.

In a recent dream, I was
climbing across the high
facades of a "religious mall"          (I think this "religious mall" idea
a place like a shopping mall            is just beautiful: a great piece of
composed of churches and                satiric commentary... no one I've
temples of various                      described it to seems to get the
religions...                            joke though.)

   But I'm pretty sure the
   scene started out as a dance
   club, and the nature of the
   mall changed as this
   "religious mall" concept
   emerged.


                          Dreams are the first drafts of a hack
                          writer that can't be bothered to worry
                          about consistency.


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