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Liability for Interruption of a Dream

Of course questions of legality have arisen during the history of Conveniences and Inconveniences.Some people are not going to be pleased, and are going to want someone else to be liable.This convenience recommends quarantine and reassurance to counteract any dream interruption or dream rerouting.

Carriers of Dreamers—Liability for Interruption of a Dream

Quarantine the dreaming passenger

and inform her of the

momentary creative change of her journey.

No need to create panic and depression.

Source: Carriers of Passengers. Liability for Interruption of Journey, published in 1907 by The Virginia Law Register

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Good Dreamer's Damages

Read with discernment: is this a convenience or an inconvenience?

Good Dreamers

Of course good dreamer's damages receive good care.

Naturally the possession of goodness in such a case

is determined by

the usage of our own common sense

signed, The Sweet Dreams Tunnel Company

Source document: Carriers of Passengers. Liability for Interruption of Journey, 1907, published by The Virginia Law Register

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Celestial Eddies

This convenience shows a page from an historical conveniences daily meditation text.The writer has used the 1897 Celestial Eddies by Lockyer for her source text.

January 14, 1897

Daily Meditation on the Threshold

What are dreams or vision but celestial eddies?

Consider the question put forward.

   

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Caution for Dream Swindlers 1

This convenience warns about the limits of dream damage liability toward those dreamers who have been dishonest in any way.

Caution for Dream Swindlers and Imposters

One who, by fraudulent representations as to her intention,

procures an alternate dream ticket

will have no right to recover for injuries

received while within the dream.

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Consider the Optical

This convenience writer comes from the holistic tradition.She believes that all aspects of a dream life are important, and that all events (internal and external) contribute to the form and meaning of  reverie.

A Necessity:

Consider the optical,

the lantern, and source,

and manufacturer, & patentee,

and accessories.

Consider the origin

and intent.

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Gothic Dreamwork 66

The reader of this convenience may understand that a convenience academic has initiated a conversation about the onset of the nineteenth-century Gothic period.More specifically, the aforementioned academic has likely stated that the Gothic era was singular due to its highly-decorated aesthetic.This convenience writer argues that each age has held and reflected its own dream flourishes, that the Gothic period was NOT singularly embellished.

Gothic Dreamwork 66

The Decorated Period.

O! No! No! No!

Which period has been without flourishes?

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Determination of the Dream Content

Convenience scholars often discuss the theory that each convenience writer tells her readers much about herself through her selection of source text, the emphases throughout her writing, and her overall advice.This convenience writer has selected Friedrich Christian Accum's 1822 text, A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, to urge caution.Some scholars posit that her warning about fraudulent dreams and her emphasis on kindness must result from a shocking and unkind dream experience of her own.

Determination of the Dream Content

In dreams,

the measure of the scandalous

is not a small measure.

A fraudulent dream life is extremely hard

upon people.

Mentally purchase half, or less, at a time

and let the measure be ever so kind.

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Qualities that Form Dreams 29

Qualities That Form Dreams 29

Decide always in favor of originality,

it is a source of wealth.

Discern the illusion of cowardly contemplation;

our body, our soul, our intellect must face tests.

Resolution:

Plunge into the realm of the imagination.

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Dream Flow During the Open Season 6

This writer encourages her readers to give dreams time to grow as it may take time to see change.She has used the 1907 Determination of Stream Flow During the Frozen Season by Harold Barrows as her source document.

Dream Flow During the Open Season 6

Do not contemplate especially the fluctuations in daily gages.

Every woman her own dream gardener: let seeds grow.

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The Cool Gaze - Creative Dream Omnibus

This convenience writer shares her observations that both body and mind may reflect changes in creativity.

The Cool Gaze

sees and shares

the evolution of the creative dream omnibus.

Illustrations in the mind and body.

 

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Dream Season 89

Dream Season 89

Practicability of Rare and Beautiful Dreams, &c.

The conditions of beauty are considerable

and generous

and determined by independent observation—

by each mind's eye, understanding, imagination, and heart.

Munificence is supported

[and] is encouraged

For her source, this convenience writer uses the 1907 Determination of Stream Flow During the Frozen Season by Harold Kilbrith Barrows 

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Committee Requests Dream Pump

June, 1869

Your committee requests a dream pump

with improvements.

I beg leave to decline

& I want to do away

with the pressure

of dreaming.

The general plan could be to adopt

ease and elegance

rather than pressure.

Source text: Report of Samuel Risley, Esq., 1869.

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Public Dream Report Volume XIII

For her source text, this convenience writer has used an 1898 publication entitled Amendments to Quarantine Regulations.

Public Dream Report

Volume XIII   October 28, 1898   No. 43.

Amendments to Inspection of  certain

Dream baggage on and after April 1 until November 15.

                                                                                         [signed] Dreamery Department, October 22, 1898.

Since the last issue of the Public Dream Reports, the Dream Poison has

declined, and fewer reveries have been reported infected.

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Inspection service has been abolished

at most of the Cognitive Borders.

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The Earliest Dreams in the World

This writer uses the 1904 Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog for her source text.

Seeking a Safe and Speedy Dream Treatment?

Lightning Express: The Earliest Dreams in the World

Read to use for good results.

Few dream seeds will yield larger dreams.

Seed is very scarce this season,

but we have what you want.

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Number 5 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Here, again, is the writer using an 1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.

Number 5 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Ascertain the character of the mind

before filling it

with ideas.

Notice the margins

of dreams in

and

about your yearning.

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Dreamer's Invitation

Dreamer's Invitation

Listen:

here and now we may trace the workings of our Liminal Self.

We experience instinct or presentiment.

We know not whence it comes or how;

We act upon it sometimes.

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Audacity in Dreamers

This convenience writer uses the 1890 Audacity in Women Novelists by George Parsons Lathrop as her source document.

Audacity in Dreamers

The Dream: declare it, see what it is, and then circulate it.

The more open the detail, the better to encourage all persons concerned;

Meanwhile, do not wait for abstract theories or concrete regulations.

Seek to secure and maintain an experiment in dreams and reality.

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Number 4 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

This convenience was written by the same writer who wrote the number 9 campaign.Again, the writer has used an 1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.

A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares Number 4

The time to baffle some dreams can be in the midst of a night-mare.

A skilled practitioner may make it possible to avert dream pestilence by a talismanic act.

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Dream Bath Cabinet

A Dream Bath Cabinet

will cure insomnia—will remove nightmares

and will remove impurities from the mind

We sell the genuine —$10.00 each

Send for Booklet

Sidgwick & Co.

Fourth and Washington Streets

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Number 9 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

This writer has used an 1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.

Number 9 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Attention to the Cultivation of Dreams

Most all minds have a few often-frequented anxious thoughts

upon which nearly all the attention of the dream scavengers is bestowed

leaving subconscious states to the chances, or awaiting miraculous release.

An Antidote:

Welcome it all into the body & trust its wisdom.

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