A Dream of the Ornamental
Source: Visible Speech, The Science of Universal Alphabets by Alexander Melville Bell, 1867.
Red-Hearted Dreamer
Text source: "The Red-Headed Woodpecker a Hoarder" by O. P. Hay, 1887.Image source: A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Health by Wooster Beach, 1847.
Dreams and Intentions Will Wander
Source: "Some Day Your Thoughts Will Wander" by C. Jay Smith, 1908.
Carefully Seed Curiosity
Source: Carefully Grown Cured Tested Seeds by Frank Ford & Son, 1898.
Source: Catalogue of Folding Chairs by Buckeye Chair Co., c. 1900.Accused of Amending Dreams
Source: A List of Palimpsest Brasses in Great Britain by Mill Stephenson, 1903.
A Dreamer May Know Periodicity
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
How to See Creative Bounty
Source: How to See Boston : A Trust Worthy Guide-Book by Grand Army of the Republic, 1890.
Change of Ambition
Source: Change of Air, or, The Philosophy of Travelling by James Johnson, 1831.
Source: American Journal of Nursing Publication, 1908-05.
Source: American Journal of Nursing Publication, 1908-05.
Source: Come to Me by Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, 1897.
Source: Library School Rules, Melvil Dewey, 1905.
Cover source: How I Know by James Swisher, 1881.Dream Pattern No. 20
Image source: Manuscript Notes on Weaving by James Holmes and James Holmes, Jr., 1900.
Source: Vortex Philosophy by C. Staniland Wake,1907.Peculiarities of the Inconvenience Habit 3
Peculiarities of the Inconvenience Habit 3
The inconvenience drives misery.
The intention is leading her victims to excess.
A Dilemma:
before indulgence becomes addiction,
the effect is soothing and tranquillizing
and
all that is beautiful presents itself to the imagination.
Source text: The Opium Habit and Alcoholism by Frederick Heman Hubbard, 1881,
To Preserve the Currant Sweet Content
This convenience comes from a well-known historical writer, which is to say she is well-known within the convenience academic and lay communities.This writer always uses cookbooks, or other culinary texts, to reflect her experiences and create her convenience messages.The literary epicure may recognize that the original page for this convenience comes from the table of contents in the 1863 edition of Beadle's Dime Cookbook; the cookbook is attributed to Mrs. Victor.Because of this convenience writer's familiarity with culinary texts, scholars theorize that she was a cook. She may have been a cook within her own family, may have worked for another household, or may have worked for or owned a commercial enterprise.Scholars also place her writing likely at the end of the 19th- or early-20th century because of the publication dates of her sources.One of the significant themes that appear in all of her conveniences is that of kindness. This writer did not hold with the more dictatorial or directive methods used by some other practitioners.Her emphasis on kindness—and softness, in this convenience—has led some scholars to believe that she had experienced (and recovered from) some kind of trauma in her earlier life.She appears to understand that some clients need to be approached with care.Note that she does not change the word currant (a berry) to the word current (a contemporary state).The word currant supports the ethic-of-kindness theory.The currant is a small and sweet (but potentially acidic) berry. The writer discerns and names the tension between these two states (sweetness and acidity) by keeping the word currant, and suggests an appropriate response.This writer always includes an image of food, in this case chocolate cream pie. More sweetness.
To Preserve the Currant Sweet Content
Make change soft and kind
Seeing Dreams With a Clear Eye
This Convenience Commentary writer advocates leaving aside too many old beliefs (superstition) and too many expectations (reverence).The writer is from the convenience tradition that privileges the current moment as the only sure source for dream validity.She adheres to one of that tradition's primary tenets: the theory that a selectively-remembered past, and an imagined future (both impossible to avoid), present us with counterfeited impressions of possibility.
Seeing Dreams with a Clear Eye
I believe counterfeiting dreams hath done mischief.
I fear reverence and superstition to be a narrow compass.
The results of this combination are injurious.
This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.
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