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Inconvenience - Pain and Dream Inflammation 1

The inconvenience writers always support the malicious, however it may appear.This writer tells her practitioners to seek out and encourage the coarser and grosser experiences of life, all the better to quash hope.She has chosen her image from The Geography of the Heavens written by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, and published in 1860. The majority of the text comes from the 1838 article, "On the Theory of Inflammation," written by Martyn Paine.Inconvenience scholars have long studied and appreciated the juxtaposition of a heavenly image imposed with information about how to inflame a life and cause pain.The text mentions comparison, and the total piece reflects duality: fine/gross, hypothetical/control, and hope/pain.

Pain and the Theory of Dream Inflammation

Defer to malicious authority to warrant the formation of pain.

We illustrate this subject by comparison:

disregard the finest and seek the coarsest,

disdain the hypothetical illustration and

render the grosser action of control.

This must be especially  the case considering

The impossibility of detecting any

remarkable quality of good hope.

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Beneath a Deposit of Time

This convenience writer believes that new dreams may be found in the remnants of earlier dreams.She recognizes the import of these dreams to a earlier imagination, and asks her clients to let those dreams fill the heart and mind once again.Many convenience scholars have theorized that this writer believes those first dreams to be among the most pure and authentic dreams.The writer has used an image from the 1879 edition of Electrical Clocks and Clockwork by Henry Dent Gardner to illustrate her emphasis on time.

On the Occurrence of Dream Artifacts Beneath a Deposit of Time

An examination of the present may reveal

the remnant of a dream of greater volume

which had, at one time, practically filled the heart.

Learn how to remember.

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Seek to Make the Surface Solid

Here is a farm convenience giving practitioners a small set of basic admonitions.I, and other convenience scholars, particularly appreciate the emphasis on curiosity.In this convenience, curiosity is more than a suggestion; it is the central core value for both client and practitioner.

Farm Convenience 53

Seek to Make

the surface solid and firm.

In addition, there should be a central core of

Curiosity.

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Inconvenience: Take a Malevolent Sentiment

This Inconvenience writer has created an article for Inconvenience Magazine using the 1895 edition of Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them (written by W. Hamilton Gibson) as her source text.There is not much subtlety in this piece.The writer clearly announces her desire for malevolence, and her admiration for poison.She finds comfort, and likely finds justification, when her own poisonous intentions are mirrored by poison in the natural world.

10 Inconvenience Magazine July

Take a Malevolent Sentiment to gain poisonous victory.

Nothing shows real intent and true commitment more

than a sympathy with nature's killers.

They are beautiful.

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The Mystic Dream Bank

Convenience writers and practitioners have come from many different traditions.Here is a piece from a Convenience Mystic writing in the wisdom tradition.She describes what she sees as the infinite and varied dream possibilities that can be accessed through a mystical/wisdom approach.

The Mystic Dream Banks:

Miscellaneous collections of creative currency,

historic auspices of possibility.

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Inconvenience: Genuine Distress

This Inconvenience writer has used the 1897 edition of Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes to create this missive.This source text and style appear throughout several late 19th- and early 20th-century inconveniences, and many early Convenience scholars proposed that this particular writer was male.These Victorian and Edwardian convenience scholars assumed that the forceful language in this source text, and emphasized by this writer, could only have been chosen by a man.Gendered assumptions have been shown to be clearly false in later convenience scholarship.As more of [his] Inconveniences are published online, readers may make their own assessments concerning the gender of the writer.

Genuine Distress:

Mischief has been the instrument.

Deep feeling tears through the psyche

using sorrow and iron determination.

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Persons are Gifted

This writer has used the 1897 edition of Pastures and Pasture Plants by William Toogood to create her Convenience.Her hand coloring adds interest and emphasis to the piece.I love this convenience for its insistence that virtues are not rare, and that they can be found in many people, if the time is taken to get to know the individual(s).Convenience scholars have classified this convenience as one of the Egalitarian Conveniences. This subgenre of conveniences supports the idea that truth does not belong to any one individual or any one group.Virtue is not rare.

Farm Convenience 47

Persons are gifted with NOT-rare virtues.

Watch carefully.

The best plan that we have heard of, or have tried,

is seeing underneath.

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The Cool Gaze: The Living Dream

Here's another convenience from the practitioner who uses the Boston Cooking School Magazine as her primary source.For this convenience, she's cut out letters from the magazine title and has pasted them into the page she wanted to use for content.She urges her readers to see the possibilities around them in the entire atmosphere, and to practice living in the present.

The Cool Gaze: The Living-Dream

The living-dream centers in the entire atmosphere.

Its chief characteristic is a present sense

of realizing knowledge and comfort.

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Inconvenience - How to Begin With a Seeker

This Inconvenience writer has found that making a person doubt himself can be the most powerful magic in the world.The writer notes that it is not necessary that the client believe in magic; it is enough to plant the seeds of self doubt and to encourage the belief that the client deserves this doubt.Vulgar magic, indeed.

How to Begin with a Seeker

Practice the Great Magic of doubt.

Believe that he deserves his fate.

It is not essential he believes in the occult,

a supply of doubt is an absolute and vulgar magic.

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Volume of Dreaming

This convenience writer comes from the wisdom tradition, and she reminds her readers that life's experiences can include many aspects: ideas, mysteries, mind, body, and shadow.Life is a comprehensive anthology.

Volume of Dreaming

Do not prevent feeling the mystery.

It is linked with shadow and concept and the mind and the body.

It is part of the universal anthology.

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The Cool Gaze: The Trained Charlatan

Here is an experienced convenience writer warning against dream charlatans. This writer calls herself The Cool Gaze, and always uses the front cover of a Boston Cooking School magazine to create her conveniences.Her words tell scholars that she comes from the wisdom convenience tradition, as she believes clients can use their own curiosity to unmask the tricks.

The Cool Gaze

The trained charlatan

seeks to conceal her fancies for old tricks.

One can see them.

Trust in thorough queries and answers

for Truth.

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Inconvenience - Dream of Projecting

This inconvenience writer suggests that her clients assign all of their own unwanted habits, thoughts, and desires to another person.This means that the client need never deeply interact with or change this troublesome material.The writer knows that the projecting will negatively affect the one trying to rid herself of the need to take any personal responsibility. The inconvenience writer and the client sidestep the questions about how to become an introspective human being.This text is doubly-effective; the writer also knows the misery and confusion that will be visited upon the recipient of the projections.

Dream of Projecting

A magnified experience of a dream, or of any phenomenon,

when thrown upon another by means of imagination and language

& with arrogant natural assumptions,

is called a projection.

When bitterness is used for this purpose,

it is the proper application of effort

for Misery

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Inconvenience - Addiction Relief Position

Study this Inconvenience for one description of addiction, craving, and suffering.Note the encouragement to Submit to the Machine of Habit.This inconvenience writer seeks weakness and addiction for her clients.Note also that she promises that giving into the narcotic will lessen the suffering, and that this indulgence will be the last time.She lies.

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Dream Walks

This convenience provides advice for women about how to walk through a dream landscape.The source text is Jane Loudon's 1852 Lady's Country Companion.Loudon herself was a contradiction. She encouraged women to embrace domesticity even as she, herself, earned a living in the professional world of writing and publishing.The writer of this convenience subverts Loudon's contradictions.The writer encourages women's dream lives, urging them to seek and serve with their own chivalry, leaving regret behind.

Book IV. Dream Walker

Examine and poetry of personal experience,

and watch the value of solitude.

Want like a female knight-errant

and wander without incurring any regret.

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A Convenience for Anytime 1

The conveniences have had their campaigners throughout the years and centuries, those writers who encourage other to do good deeds.Convenience scholars do not dismiss these writings because of their activist messaging, but the texts are considered a specific subgenre of conveniences.

A Convenience for Any Time

The comfort which derives from service is quite free

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When the Mind is Left at Rest

This convenience writer tells the reader that rest is needed for dreams,She recommends sleep, and also more prolonged rest periods.The rest is necessary for the imagination to flourish, and for the mind and body to create and recognize possibility.Note that the writer has cited her source, the 1886 Practical Recipes for Making Ice Cream, and has chosen to place her text inside a drawing of an ice cream churn.The churn suggests both rest and action, and presents an allegory.When an ice cream batter is chilled [rested] and then churned, it creates a rich dessert [experience].

When the Mind is Left at Rest

for a number of hours, or days or weeks,

it throws up a fantastical layer well known as Dreaming

which is simply Experience very rich in Possibility

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Place Unbroken Grace

The culinarily-inclined may recognize this title and text from Beadle's Dime Cookbook, published in 1864 and written by Mrs. Victor.This would have been a text that was common and easily acquired. As such, it has been used by many convenience writers.The convenience writer emphasizes grace, and stresses the need for authenticity by warning against too much performance.

The Dime Convenience 27

Place unbroken grace in the heart

The art lies in not too much performance

and having even goodness

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What is Luck in a Dream?

Convenience scholars believe that this convenience was created in rebuttal to some of the convenience philosophers.Readers may note that many conveniences are somewhat ephemeral, providing hints rather than direct instructions.The writer of this convenience does not want hints or philosophy; she asks for directness and [what she considers to be] realism.Realism was, and is, one of the styles of conveniences, and has cycled into and out of favor over the years.

What is Luck in a Dream?

Not in abstract philosophical controversy

but in a sort of common-sense meaning.

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Dreams and Hunger

This convenience writer advocates embracing the weird, however it may show itself.More than that, she suggests that her clients (and others) seek out the strange, resisting conformity.Even further, her chosen title suggests that the eccentric (whatever that may mean to any person or group) may satisfy [intellectual and emotional] hunger.This writer has chosen to dedicate this work to a woman named Joanne (see the top right corner).

This is not uncommon; conveniences are frequently dedicated to friends, usually indicating that the friend has inspired at least part of the convenience.

Note the style of this convenience. The writer has not erased or marked through the extra text.

This style was/is often used by a convenience mentor to provide some transparency into the convenience-writing process for a convenience student.

Dreams & Hunger

Rigid conformity should expect resistance.

Show particular attention to the work of the seemingly strange.

This is the fact to be observed – with respect to the unusual,

on the one hand, new dreams challenge,

and, on the other,

they may plant the seeds that grow and satisfy

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Inconvenience - Symptomatology of Abandonment

Here's an Inconvenience describing how attachment can lead to devastating feelings of abandonment.Note that the writer tells the reader that maximum attachment is encouraged because it can lead to feelings of maximum abandonment.She clearly delineates the emotions she strives to evoke via abandonment: pain, emotional discomfort, etc.She likens attachment to a drug; this implies that the attachment addict requires every-increasing doses.

The Symptomatology of Abandonment

manifests in irritation, aches, pains, collapse,

mental and emotional discomfort.

It is correct to assert that we seek the narcotic of attachment

and then experience the maximum irritation

with maximum abandonment

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