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"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? ... You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that there King was to wake you'd go out -- bang! -- just like a candle!"

"Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise."

"Well it's no use your talking about waking him when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Sunday, March 12, 2006


The lovely Theo Hummer was there too, though I didn't know she would be. Did I tell you she lives in my beloved Ithaca apartment? That she put me up there the last time I'd had too much to drink in Ithaca?

Thank you for going to my reading, sweet Theo. I know you missed the Kenneth Koch panel for me.
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"and what is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?"


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