Bizarre awakenings
Three things woke me up just now from a deep slumber wherein I was dreaming with some jealousy about my ex and her new boyfriend:
1) Thunder (again), which was very nice.
2) The apparent sound of a very loud, very yippy dog, squeaking at intervals to the inexplicable applause of a crowd of people in the street. It turned out that the road outside my house has become the finish line for a 10K run, and that the dog is the mechanical horn signalling the runners' crossing it.
3) The word "Dictator" screamed loudly in my dream, which to my mind wasn't about dictators, and so seemed puzzling. I realized after a bit of reflection, though, that it contained a Joycean double pun that expressed both my jealousy in the most blatantly vulgar terms and also perhaps my concession to the new boyfriend that their relationship was a good thing ("Dick, date her"). The mind is a funny thing.
1) Thunder (again), which was very nice.
2) The apparent sound of a very loud, very yippy dog, squeaking at intervals to the inexplicable applause of a crowd of people in the street. It turned out that the road outside my house has become the finish line for a 10K run, and that the dog is the mechanical horn signalling the runners' crossing it.
3) The word "Dictator" screamed loudly in my dream, which to my mind wasn't about dictators, and so seemed puzzling. I realized after a bit of reflection, though, that it contained a Joycean double pun that expressed both my jealousy in the most blatantly vulgar terms and also perhaps my concession to the new boyfriend that their relationship was a good thing ("Dick, date her"). The mind is a funny thing.
posted by James at 6:13 AM
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