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Report of Curator 29

Alert Alert Alert

Report of Curator 29, Dreaming Department

All,—My report for donations

to the Dreamer's Museum for the last three months:

The monies seem to be missing.

Who is the thief &

where is the money?

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Inconvenience - Poisoning Dreamers #2

Poisoning Dreamers 2

Administer doubts

and increase the familiar to lull suspicion.

The principal effect is a wrong feeling

so the mind's familiarity may soothe.

Disease-production is apparent soon after infection

and exceptional opportunities

for every variety of greater mischief

become possible after that.

Source: Arsenical Poisoning in Beer Drinkers by Theophilus Nicholas Kelynack, publication date 1901.

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Funnel-Shaped Dreams

Here is another warning about becoming obsessed with a dream.This writer uses the metaphor of a tornado to tell her readers that an intensely moving dream can easily pull a dreamer into its orbit.

Funnel-Shaped Dreams

During the afternoon of 12 July, 1848

there appeared dreams

resembling whirlpools*

They were not ordinary visions.

The centres of the columns changed

owing to violent writhing.

Only a little song fell from any of them, and still

they pulled in listeners.

 

*These were nearer than I ever before saw

Source text: The Ocean by Jordan, William Leighton  Publication date 1885.

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Dreams Caught in Eddies Quiz

Here is another warning against obsession. This writer uses the metaphor of eddies to illustrate the feelings of the intense forces around obsession. Her last line suggests that a person can accidentally fall into obsession if not careful.She has used this source text: The Ocean: A Treatise on Ocean Currents and Tides and Their Causes by William Leighton Jordan, 1885

Quiz: Dreams Caught in Eddies are

A Comfortable

 B Trustworthy

C Dangerously fanatical

The unavoidable and correct answer is C.

This is a warning to careless dreamers.

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Gothic Dreamwork 46

Here is an inconvenience from the Gothic tradition.This writer tells her readers that any change which is not pure can be considered Gothic, and her statement is quite problematic:

  • Pure to whom?
  • What kind of change?
  • Mysterious to whom? Are all mysteries inconvenient? (Of course not!)
  • What about Gothic Conveniences?

Gothic Dreamwork 46

That change which exhibits a state distinct from pure,

this vision is a mysterious monument.

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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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Archetype of an Inconvenience 1

This inconvenience writer uses a drawing from Joseph Maclise's 1847 Comparative Osteology for her source text.The drawing obviously suggests mortality.Convenience scholars theorize that some inconveniences are written to encourage the attitudes and behaviors of death prior to actual physical demise.This writer poses a rhetorical question about archetypes.She inquires (as have most thinking persons) about the source of suffering, or inconvenience.

What is an Archetype of an Inconvenience?

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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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