The silliest bit from my dreams this morning:<\/p>\n
A book (for sale in a normal modern bookstore), about six inches thick, hardbound, with a cover maybe 18\" x 16\". In a large, friendly, modern typeface. Written in Faux Ye Olde Englisshe. About Quidditch.<\/p>\n
The author was there in the store, and was explaining to us why she and the publishers had put a copyright date of 1929 on the book (to make it seem more old-fashioned), and why they had almost decided not to include the chapter on the I Ching (because they feared that the vast majority of the core American audience would be angry about their publishing stuff about magic--somehow in the dream it made sense to me that the I Ching would be considered magic while Harry Potter wouldn't).<\/p>\n
I was going to say that this was yet another piece of evidence that most of my dreams are entirely random, having nothing whatsoever to do with anything. But now that I think of it, I do know where the I Ching part came from: one of the making-of segments of A Scanner Darkly<\/cite>, which I watched on Sunday, showed pieces of paper on which PKD had cast the I Ching to determine how well the book would sell, among other things. And the idea of a very large book presumably came from the lovely book that Kam and I saw in a bookstore a week or two back: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings<\/a><\/cite>. Still, I'm inclined to feel that these are random tidbits of recent memory surfacing, rather than anything Meaningful. Of course, it's possible that the presence of the I Ching was meant to tell me that randomness is<\/em> meaningful.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The silliest bit from my dreams this morning: A book (for sale in a normal modern bookstore), about six inches…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}