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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."

Thursday, June 22, 2006

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Will it storm? I am trying to remember what I know. The cloud buildup, the morning's soft edges. Mares' tails, high cirrus closing in. Stratus. Take big scoops from the sky Trystan said when we swam yesterday. We practiced diving for rings. We practiced skimming the pool floor like bottom feeders. We were getting better at being fish. My mother's advice at night before bed: lay out your clothes for tomorrow so you know what you're wearing. You cannot wear everything at once.

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


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