Paris
Rome calls itself the Eternal City, but for the last four or five centuries the capital of art, literature, music and romance has been, pretty consistently, Paris.
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BIRD, CAT, TREASURE: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/8/3, two warning dreams in one night Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird & burglars loot an open house. Maybe keep hiding? |
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BREAD LIBERATION: by Georges Perec; March 1971, a dream of a lame revolution. Dream #60 Mobilization, war, troop transport, slogans, marching bands and orgies, all in an apotheosis of dough... CAUTION: ENDS IN SEX |
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"DEATH! DEATH!" by William Holman Hunt; 1854/1/20 (or so); a one-year predictive dream DREAM: Hunt's mother points at a tall figure in the shadows and shrieks "Death! Death!" ONE YEAR LATER: in Jerusalem, his hostess finds her young son dead, and shrieks... CAUTION: BEWARE THE IDES OF JANUARY? |
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THE DENUNCIATION: by Georges Perec; August 1972, a dream of war-trauma finally healing? Dream #124 1941. My dad and I are denounced to the SS. We're put in with monsters; I'm a snake or fish myself. But the Nazis become a photo album, I go to a memorial, I cry, it's 1947, peace... CAUTION: HOLOCAUST MEMORIES |
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THE DREAM: dreamed by Yadwigha, painted by Henri Rousseau; 1910, collaborative dream art Rousseau's painting of a woman on a red sofa in a glorious jungle really was dream-based--just not his dream... CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING |
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A FACTORY FIRE: by J. W. Dunne; late 1903, a predictive nightmare. Dunne dreamt of a fire with smoke so toxic it killed people on a balcony in open air! Then came the evening newspaper... |
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FLAYED COLUMN: by Antoine Lavalette, fall 1815; a time-compressed nightmare In prison, the midnight bell chimed. I dreamt I saw a cavalry column of men and horses skinned, gory, still marching. Wagons of the dead passed for hours. As the guard changed, the gate crashed, waking me--just minutes after midnight! CAUTION: PROVES NOT ALL DREAMS ARE REALTIME |
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A GENERAL HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION (AN EXCERPT): by Georges Perec; April 1972, his Dream #115 Parking structures with spiral ramps are, secretly, screws harvesting motion from parking cars, slowly drilling into near-impenetrable rock. Thus are skyscraper-foundations made... |
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THE GREAT PEACE: by George Antheil; early 1922; two predictive dreams that change a pianist's life I dream it's after a great war; I hear the music I must write, and meet the girl I must marry... |
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INVISIBLE GIRLFRIEND: by Wayan, 2023/4/11, a baffling predictive dreamlet DREAM: in my car, the window crank turns on its own; my invisible girlfriend is crawling out the window! She's turned so quiet & private. Have I seen the last of her? Well, not seen... NEXT DAY: I stumble on a one-off manga about an invisible girl; but the artist writes "I decided not to make her a regular--too quiet & private, & I can't draw her feelings"... CAUTION: GLASSY NUDITY, E.S.P. SPECULATION |
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MARINE GEOLOGY'S NOT IT: by Wayan; 1984/6/2, a dream farce. After finding marine geologists in my chocolate pudding, I'd rather be a Frenchman and insult my wife... CAUTION: DECADENCE |
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MENAGE A THREE, MOVE TO PAREE: by Wayan; 1986? Sketch of recurrent dream theme I was a young dream-artist out of place in the Silicon Valley... |
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MINOS, EAQUE AND RHADAMANTHE: by James Joyce, c. 1934/7/8, a short, precise, predictive nightmare Joyce, in Paris, dreamed he was attacked by three madmen, Minos, Eaque and Rhadamanthe. Three weeks later, a madman mailed explosive packages around Paris--signed Minos, Eaque and Rhadamanthe, the Judges of Hell... |
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NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES: by Erica DeMane, Michael, Joanne and Scott; c.1984, four creepy dreams Erica dreams that during a protest she's caught in a radioactive flood... Michael dreams a nuclear forcefield makes his fingertips explode and congeal into weird knobs... Joanne dreams she meets nuclear mutants with curling black nails great for peeling potatoes... Scott dreams the world goes silent and white, bleaching out. His hands dissolve... |
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THE PLAY: by Georges Perec; February 1972, a dream with the attention span of a gnat. Dream #108 I'm in a play. Fear, then joyful sex, then ranching, then silly hats, as a man drones on about class struggle. Weird chairs, pingpong, coffee, impossible double utterances. At last I tell friends my dream--backwards. Then I write the dream down on slices of cheese... CAUTION: SEX ONSTAGE |
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PUDDING AND FORTGIBU: lived by M. Deschamps, as told by Carl Jung; a synchronistic linkage spanning the 19th Century As a child in Orléans, M. Deschamps got his first taste of plum-cake from a M. Fortgibu. As a man in Paris, Deschamps saw plum cake again--but not to eat. M. Fortgibu had beaten him to it. Many years later, Deschamps was given plum-cake. He said "All that's missing is M. Fortgibu!"... CAUTION: TRULY POINTLESS AND THAT'S THE POINT |
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A SQUARE IN THE HAND: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic nightmare with a twist I'm a French revolutionary facing a firing squad. But palmistry predicts I'll be strangely saved... |
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THREE FLYING DREAMS: by Sharad Chandra, 1988 or before, mystical advisory dreams 1: I ask how to fly. "Breathe air from high levels; its light and purity will wash away earth's heaviness..." 2: To join a flying game, you must cut off your own head! Players acquire new heads and can work miracles... 3: I float up to reach a book in a shop. People call the police but I defiantly soar--over Paris, up to the stars... |
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THUMBSUCKER!: by a patient of William Hammond, c.1868, an epic comic taste dream I paint my thumb with bitter aloes to break my habit of sucking it at night. I dream of wormwood, ox gall, mineral salts. I consult Dr. Save Me and even the Pope, but... |
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TORCH-BEARER: by Queen Hecuba of Troy; c. 1270 BCE, an alarming dream. Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live... CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION |
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THE VENDOR: by Georges Perec; July 1971, a nightmare of societal amorality. Dream #77 I murder my wife. I try to sell her body as meat to a firm that'll turn her into wine. But the transubstantiation has already happened, and the paperwork's undone... CAUTION: GRISLY |
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