dreams

Apr. 21st, 2004 09:26 am
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Weird freaking dreams, Gentle Readers.


I dreamed I was teaching again (never a good sign): first day of class and I have no idea what the syllabus is. But that morphed into a dream about lions and dragons, so that was okay. Dreamed I described myself to [livejournal.com profile] rysmiel as "well-intentioned but ill-disposed" and was promptly claimed as a soul-mate. (Rysmiel, I have no idea how you yourself would react, but the dream-Rysmiel was quite certain.) Later in that same dream, I got a letter from my editor saying they'd decided to call the second book The Story of King Cole and His Daughter, Only with Two Daughters. I had, in the parlance of my adolescence, a cow. I remember saying, "But that's even worse than my titles!"

And then there was the Tolkien as post-nuclear-holocaust dream, in which the Manhattan Project had actually destroyed Manhattan Island, and the war cry of the Riders of Rohan was, "Remember Manhattan!" (Which is the title of a Richard Marx song--another hangover from my misspent youth--which now, not surprisingly, I have stuck in my head.) That was one of those dreams in which the meat of the dream is actually a novel I was writing, and [livejournal.com profile] redbird made a cameo as a reader of said novel.

And then there was the dream about digging in the sand to find and rescue [livejournal.com profile] elisem's little plastic bags of beads before the tide came in. My guess is that last night was mostly about processing Minicon.

Date: 2004-04-21 10:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rysmiel.livejournal.com
Well-intentioned but ill-disposed certainly suits me professionally at the moment; for values of "ill-disposed" such as "fed up to the back teeth with being told about deadlines too late to sensibly do anything about them."

Date: 2004-04-21 02:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com
The title made me laugh out loud. That's so terrible, and so great at the same time.

King Coel did have a daughter, now I will go bats trying to remember her name -- no, it was in Morris, and it's Gwawl, she married Cunedda.

If I hadn't looked it up, it would have been nagging at me all day.

Date: 2004-04-22 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
I know, isn't it dreadful?

I didn't even know King Cole (or Coel) had a daughter--at least I didn't know it consciously--so thank you.

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