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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."

Friday, April 21, 2006

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Woke with a lot of noise in my head, the sort that produces noise here, so I'll resist putting it down and head for the tub instead where I might read something clarifying in today's class prep.Though I love them, the poems look too familiar this morning, wearisome--Shelley's veil of familiarity, I'm reminded--that which poetry would slice through. So let's see what poetry can do when I am tired of it.

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"and what is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?"


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