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Delusional-Dream Disease

The writer of this Convenience tells her readers that delusional thinking is inherent in being human, that it is a persistent state, and that many people are frequently trying different methods to rid themselves of their delusions.Source text: The Potato Disease by Royal College of Surgeons of England, publication date 1845.

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Preservation of Les Rêves

Here is an advertisement for a textbook about dreams.Please note that the author has chosen Anonymous for her last name.Choosing to remain anonymous is the tradition among practitioners.It has always been this way. Convenience practitioners do not claim to be originators of knowledge or wisdom.They see themselves as conduits.Source text: Preservation of the teeth indispensable to comfort and appearance, health and longevity by  Gray, John, Publication date 1840.

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Deep Transformation in the Gifted Dream

Report Upon Deep Transformations in the Gifted* Dream

Many novel and interesting questions inhabit this zone.

The floor of this area is fertile; it is, in fact, composed entirely of the remains

of thoughts and experiences now living on its surface.

Possibilities are abundant

and comprise the *gift.

Source Text: Report Upon Deep Sea Dredgings in the Gulf Stream, Publication date 1870.

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From Family Dreams

1890—From Family Dreams of Independent Sources

If an idea is the ancestor of the origin and use of the word family,

we must, it seems to me, account for the ancestor of the term called accident.

Our knowledge is at present limited, however,

it seems these two experiences may depart widely from a plan.

Mutual relationship must be regarded as a puzzle of life.

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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.

Come back next week to see more ephemera.