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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, June 23, 2006

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Sunup and I am feeling nearly myself again. Nervous about everything, sleepless by early morning, full of work, lazy. Haven't had tea yet, for instance. That would require making it. Instead, I sit here catching up with you at your place. --Hold on a sec. Glenda's made coffee, it's done, I can hear it. She's next door feeding the gecko. Hold on while I steal her coffee.

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Spent yesterday pulling writing from my posts that might become something more sustained, the dreams, the essay-poem sequences, the early vulnerable stuff I wrote out when no one was hanging around this workspace, the Annunciation notebook entries. I'm sure most of you would cull reams of writing, or do; as it is, I've got about eighty pages to slash through, most of it not useful, but with any daily notebook there will be daily unfinished work. So I am going back to add finish, as I'd always meant to do. One long poem-essay somewhere here. A sequence. It may become its own book, in time. Think so?

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


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