Behind Saint Mark's church, with the leg of a man upon his shoulder

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Dear brain. Let me start by saying that it's not that I don't appreciate you dreaming—I haven't had a dream I remembered since the beginning of March that wasn't some kind of grotesque or obvious anxiety nightmare. But while I'm sure it raised the intellectual bar for the next few nights, I really didn't like dreaming about a community event that turned into a race riot (in the dream I thought pogrom). A white man ran out of the school below me carrying the chewed arm of a brown-skinned child in his teeth. Said he was a wolf, only the difference was, a wolf's skin was hairy on the outside. It is interesting to represent racism itself as lycanthropy. Werewolves in mainstream fiction lately seem to function more more as metaphor for marginalized groups. I'm sure something powerful could be done with the reversal if it hasn't already. But it will probably not be me this week and anyway it was a very upsetting dream, thank you.

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That's a horrible-sounding dream, and I'm sorry you had it.

Werewolves in mainstream fiction lately seem to function more more as metaphor for marginalized groups. I'm sure something powerful could be done with the reversal if it hasn't already.

It could be.

I can't think of a specific example of it being done, although something is teasing at the back of my mind; however, I'm probably combining the Werwolf militia units and an illustration of Charles Manson as a werewolf in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture (1986), the which I read at what I suspect was rather too young an age.