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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2012-06-11 09:20 am

A most un-PC dream

I woke this morning from a strange dream in which I was watching film with a kind of reverse-Scheherazade scenario, in which a young husband was trying to reconcile his bride to her forced marriage by telling her stories. In the end, he told the tale of a sage who passed a gold coin from one hand to the other, declaring "This gift I give from myself to myself, and behold I am one coin the richer!"

At that, her eyes were opened, and she perceived that she was truly loved. "But," she declared, "I mourn my name in you buried."

People talk that way in my dreams sometimes.

[identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com 2012-06-11 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
If this were in a novel, I'd buy it on sight.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2012-06-11 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That is very lyrical.

[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2012-06-11 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, she regrets changing her name due to marriage? I know, way too literal, no fun.

I feel diffident about engaging in any kind of dream interpretation that could be even semi-serious about your real life, as I know only bits and pieces of it. So I will only venture the grand platitude that perhaps both the characters are Aspects of You (which is something I could say to anybody, and I bet is true of an awful lot of dreams).

[identity profile] l. lee lowe (from livejournal.com) 2012-06-11 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
A great dream - no dream critic needed! (My dreams are never like that...)
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[personal profile] sovay 2012-06-11 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mourn my name in you buried."

POEM STORY SOMETHING THANK YOU.