The postmark burning jet black in the summer sun

[sovay]

And then I dreamed that books were commonly translated from and into Etruscan, which I was learning from a bilingual collection of folktales. I hope this doesn't mean I'm due some kind of conventional wish-fulfillment dream, just for balance. There really aren't any actors I want to sleep with, and if I won the lottery, I'd mostly use it for practical things.

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[alankria.livejournal.com]

I dreamed that I was flying somewhere (can't remember where, not sure I knew) and almost got 4 seats to myself.

Obviously you should publish an English-Etruscan bilingual folktale collection.

[sovay]

I dreamed that I was flying somewhere (can't remember where, not sure I knew) and almost got 4 seats to myself.

That's not bad!

Obviously you should publish an English-Etruscan bilingual folktale collection.

I'll put it on the to-list right after the Brecht translations and the poem into Greek . . .

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

And then I dreamed that books were commonly translated from and into Etruscan, which I was learning from a bilingual collection of folktales.

Wonderful concept, but I can imagine how heartbreaking it would feel to wake up from that dream and know it not so.

I hope this doesn't mean I'm due some kind of conventional wish-fulfillment dream, just for balance. There really aren't any actors I want to sleep with, and if I won the lottery, I'd mostly use it for practical things.

Hmm... I suppose that means I've never had a conventional wish-fulfillment dream. Not sure I'd want one, either.

I hope your hopes are fulfilled.

[sovay]

Wonderful concept, but I can imagine how heartbreaking it would feel to wake up from that dream and know it not so.

I guess that's what Ostia Naye is for . . .

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I guess that's what Ostia Naye is for . . .

True, I suppose. And, although I regret your heartbreak, Ostia Naye is a fascinating place, one I'm grateful to have seen a glimpse of.

Myself, I have to admit that I probably spend far too much time worrying about to what degree a given fiction I might be writing is or isn't a complete piece of wish-fulfillment.

[sovay]

Sadly, the only language that ever shows up in my dreams (and that very infrequently) is Korean. And never in writing.

I don't know. That still registers as cool to me.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

And then I dreamed that books were commonly translated from and into Etruscan
I take it you didn't remember any of the words?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

though I suppose what you'd REALLY want would be some of the grammar rules...

[sovay]

though I suppose what you'd REALLY want would be some of the grammar rules...

Bingo. I already know some words in Etruscan. I don't know how to construct a sentence.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Isn't wish-fulfillment by definition in the subconscious of the beholder?

[sovay]

Isn't wish-fulfillment by definition in the subconscious of the beholder?

I was thinking more like Jung's collective unconscious. But maybe that's a balancing act—I dream of Etruscan textbooks, someone else wakes up from a date with . . . Eric Bana?