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Navigating My Subconscious
When I was a boy, among my adventure fantasies was being a fighter pilot. There was something tremendously exciting to me in the idea of traveling at superhigh speeds and concentrating not just on the...
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Your Dreams, and the Long Haul
[Image above: "The Long Haul," by artist Robert W. McGregor] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Excerpt from “Sabbaths 1998: VI” But won’t you be ashamed To count the passing year At its mere...
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(Under) Mining Your Dreams
[Image: "Good and Evil," by Daniel Merriam. See the original, more clearly, at Merriam's own site.] From whiskey river’s commonplace book (“the pursuit of fantasy“): Writing in the Dark It’s not...
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JES Has Come Unstuck in Time (by Choice and Training)
[See note at bottom of the post for information about this image.] One of these days, if I’m feeling very ambitious, I might expand this dream (from the other morning) into a whole story or book....
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The Calm at the Core of Disorder
[Lyrics] [Video: "Saints & Liars," by Pony Boy. See the note at the foot of this post for more information.] From whiskey river: There is tremendous power in unearthing, in recognizing distracted,...
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The Propagational Library (8): Dreamtime
See the latest installment in the ongoing Propagational Library series, here: …in which The Librarian (having discovered four additional dimensions of time) drifts off to sleep, and more than one light...
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The Propagational Library (10): Striking a Match
The latest installment in the weekly serial story called The Propagational Library appears here: …in which The Librarian, and a certain author, have their minds turned inside-out. If you’ve never read...
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The Only One of Us with the Coordinates for This Destination and Its Hardware...
Surely I’ve said so before, here and elsewhere, but just in case it’s fallen through the cracks: I really, really like being friends with — just knowing — smart people. I could cite any number of...
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Seen in the Proper Light
[Image: "Night Visions," by user lacomj on Flickr. Interestingly, this is not a black-and-white photo; says the caption on that page: "There is a lot to see up in the sky at night in infrared!"] From...
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The Trap of What Never (Might Have) Happened
[Image: "10th July 2008 - The Dream Diary," by user practicalowl on Flickr.com. (Right-click and view in a new window/tab for a much larger version.)) Used under a Creative Commons license.] From...
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When a Moment Is More Than a Moment
[Image: “Desert Watcher,” by Children of Darklight (user athalfred) on Flickr. (Used here under a Creative Commons license.) This is a composite image: the star trails comprise 76 separate photos,...
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Pay Attention to This Dream You Are Having
[Video: TED Talk by the puppeteers behind the War Horse stage production. The play was originally based on a children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, and was itself adapted into a very successful film by...
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Right Haunted
[Image: photograph of Ron Mueck’s sculpture, “Boy”; photo by Tamaki Sono, found on Flickr (and used here under a Creative Commons license — thanks!). Mueck specializes in sculpting people in...
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Phantom Realities
[Video: “Translating Architecture into Instruments,” TED video by “contemporary sound, performance and installation artist” Allard Van Hoorn. Van Hoorn’s Urban Songlines project of a few years ago...
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Dreaming Real: The Empty Shelves
I woke up this morning at about ten minutes to five, needing to answer (as they say) the call of nature. But it took me several minutes to get out of bed, because I’d awoken from a dream of startling...
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