I'll always burn a light for you

[sovay]

I slept enough to dream last night! I have no idea why I dreamed about wandering around an aquarium with an Omni theater and a library in the basement with derspatchel except that my brain evidently thinks I've been too housebound lately. The Omni theater looked half like the old Hall of Ocean Life in the American Museum of Natural History, full of dioramas and blue light. Rob had some kind of proposal to talk over with someone in the upper seats of the theater, I was doing research. Even in the dream, it struck me that putting a library in the basement of an aquarium is a terrible idea. I was reading a short experimental novel from the '30's, translated from the Czech, about a girl on the moment of death, moving through her memories as if through the streets and squares of the city where she had been born; it was a political allegory, but I didn't know enough about the politics of the time. The library's walls were full glass windows and the waters of the harbor were visible beyond them, faintly gold-sparking with afternoon. It is true that the New England Aquarium is within walking distance of the Fort Point Channel, but not quite the way the dream seemed to think.

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[selidor]

Even in the dream, it struck me that putting a library in the basement of an aquarium is a terrible idea.

Well, that depends entirely on what the books and ink are made of. Possibly also whose aquarium, and library, it is...

[sovay]

Possibly also whose aquarium, and library, it is...

OH VERY CLEVER PROSPERO.

[selidor]

No good magician ever really lets go.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you were able to dream, and this does sound an interesting one, even though the thought of a library in the basement of an aquarium does make me to shudder slightly. Hopefully in that dreamworld books are more waterproof than are our own.

I do like your descriptions of the place. So many of my dream places are dimly lit, and it makes me somehow glad that not everyone has that all the time.

[sovay]

So many of my dream places are dimly lit, and it makes me somehow glad that not everyone has that all the time.

Generally mine have good architecture.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Nor should they. Breaking a staff in a fit of melancholy or in celebration is almost a magical check-in. Definitely something you should do once or twice a century, just to keep things fresh.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

a girl on the moment of death, moving through her memories as if through the streets and squares of the city where she had been born; it was a political allegory, but I didn't know enough about the politics of the time.

I want to read that.

[sovay]

I want to read that.

I might have to learn Czech first to translate it from.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

You dream wonderfully. Sleep well, wake well.

Nine

[sovay]

Sleep well, wake well.

Thank you. I hope your travel went easily.