I haven't seen anyone else post the complete quote yet, so here it is:
Daydream, which is to though as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by living transparencies: there's a beginning of the unknown. But beyond it the Possible opens out, immense. Other beings, other facts, are there. No supernaturalism, on the occult continuation of infinite nature....Sleep is in contact with the Possible, which we also call the improbable. The world of the night is a world. Night, as night, is a universe....The dark things of the unknown world become neighbors of man, whether by true communication or by a visionary enlargement of the distances of the abyss...and the sleeper, not quite seeing, not quite unconscious, glimpses the strange animalities, weird vegetations, terrible or radiant pallors, ghosts, masks, figures, hydras, confusions, moonless moonlights obscure unmakings of miracle, growths and vanishings within a murky depth, shapes floating in shadow, the whole mystery which we call Dreaming, and which is nothing other than the approach of an invisible reality. The dream is the aquarium of Night.
-V. Hugo, Travailleurs de la Mer
The quote is at the beginning of chapter 7 of Ursula K. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven.
Daydream, which is to though as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by living transparencies: there's a beginning of the unknown. But beyond it the Possible opens out, immense. Other beings, other facts, are there. No supernaturalism, on the occult continuation of infinite nature....Sleep is in contact with the Possible, which we also call the improbable. The world of the night is a world. Night, as night, is a universe....The dark things of the unknown world become neighbors of man, whether by true communication or by a visionary enlargement of the distances of the abyss...and the sleeper, not quite seeing, not quite unconscious, glimpses the strange animalities, weird vegetations, terrible or radiant pallors, ghosts, masks, figures, hydras, confusions, moonless moonlights obscure unmakings of miracle, growths and vanishings within a murky depth, shapes floating in shadow, the whole mystery which we call Dreaming, and which is nothing other than the approach of an invisible reality. The dream is the aquarium of Night.
-V. Hugo, Travailleurs de la Mer
The quote is at the beginning of chapter 7 of Ursula K. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven.
I haven't seen this before. Very nice work. There's that lathe of heaven again. And la mer again.
That book seems to be a current theme in all of this.
That book seems to be a current theme in all of this.
good job amlah6, welcome to the board.
=)
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Shadow wrote:
Thank you, amlah6, for sharing your findings. That was very kind and brave.
wha?
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Very nice, amlah6.
Crackpot theory time!
Maybe Trent just found a cache of his old school from when his grade seven class did an English unit on LeGuinn and started scanning handouts like crazy. We'll know for sure if he starts posting comprehension tests.
The binary can be explained as Rob's cry for help. He's now being routinely abused by Trent (see: Meathead Perspective, 7.8.03) who is trying to re-live his youth by consuming nothing but Big Gulps.
Crackpot theory time!
Maybe Trent just found a cache of his old school from when his grade seven class did an English unit on LeGuinn and started scanning handouts like crazy. We'll know for sure if he starts posting comprehension tests.
The binary can be explained as Rob's cry for help. He's now being routinely abused by Trent (see: Meathead Perspective, 7.8.03) who is trying to re-live his youth by consuming nothing but Big Gulps.
markus_conn wrote:
Very nice, amlah6.
Crackpot theory time!
Maybe Trent just found a cache of his old school from when his grade seven class did an English unit on LeGuinn and started scanning handouts like crazy. We'll know for sure if he starts posting comprehension tests.
The binary can be explained as Rob's cry for help. He's now being routinely abused by Trent (see: Meathead Perspective, 7.8.03) who is trying to re-live his youth by consuming nothing but Big Gulps.
Crackpot theory time!
Maybe Trent just found a cache of his old school from when his grade seven class did an English unit on LeGuinn and started scanning handouts like crazy. We'll know for sure if he starts posting comprehension tests.
The binary can be explained as Rob's cry for help. He's now being routinely abused by Trent (see: Meathead Perspective, 7.8.03) who is trying to re-live his youth by consuming nothing but Big Gulps.
Slurpees markus, slurpees
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Papagolash wrote:
Slurpees markus, slurpees
markus_conn wrote:
Very nice, amlah6.
Crackpot theory time!
Maybe Trent just found a cache of his old school from when his grade seven class did an English unit on LeGuinn and started scanning handouts like crazy. We'll know for sure if he starts posting comprehension tests.
The binary can be explained as Rob's cry for help. He's now being routinely abused by Trent (see: Meathead Perspective, 7.8.03) who is trying to re-live his youth by consuming nothing but Big Gulps.
Crackpot theory time!
Maybe Trent just found a cache of his old school from when his grade seven class did an English unit on LeGuinn and started scanning handouts like crazy. We'll know for sure if he starts posting comprehension tests.
The binary can be explained as Rob's cry for help. He's now being routinely abused by Trent (see: Meathead Perspective, 7.8.03) who is trying to re-live his youth by consuming nothing but Big Gulps.
Slurpees markus, slurpees
Sorry. Brain fart. I was actually dinking a Big Gulp at the time.
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ok, this guy is obviously trent fucking with us.
at least that's what i wish
at least that's what i wish
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Jacklenut wrote:
ok, this guy is obviously trent fucking with us.
at least that's what i wish
at least that's what i wish
Unless Trent's in Oklahoma (or a good IP hax0r), it's not Trent.
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Location: here... come and get it trent
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amlah6 wrote:
I haven't seen anyone else post the complete quote yet, so here it is: <snip> The quote is at the beginning of chapter 7 of Ursula K. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven.
Again, a newbie enlightens. Thanks amlah6. Welcome to ETS.