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Steve Finegan
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Beautiful Dreamer
From a collection of 100-word stories & wonders
A young girl’s lucid dreams are turned into a weapon in the ongoing War on Terror. Image by thierry ehrmann, via flickr.
Lacey thumbed a switch on Rosy’s head-up display glasses. “Okay, Rosy, exactly one minute after you hit REM, we’ll flash the LEDs, same as last time. You roger with the standard left-right-left-right eye moveme
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Into the Mist: Silver Hand
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“Command the murderous chalices...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow--Death to Moby Dick!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.”
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“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
― The Tempest
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
― The Tempest
“Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.”
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Okay, I finally responded to your friend request, prompted by your blog entry on the White Oak at Basking Ridge, NJ. So, how did you happen to write that story? (view spoiler)Have you finished reading William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience ? (That was your reach-out to me.) I finally decided to consider the work I did on it for the Western Canon discussion could count as a first read. But it will take one or two more passes, which I may or may not accomplish, to consider that I have really "read" that thing.
Hey Lily,
I saw a story about the White Oak of Basking Ridge on the CBS Evening News last fall. I love trees, especially old, historic ones (go figure: I live in Portland, Oregon), so I did a bit of research and decided I had to write a 100-word story about it. As for The Varieties of Religious Experience, yes, I finished it many years ago. I only picked it up again to re-read the chapter on Mysticism for the umpteenth time. I just finished Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy and am now studying Jung's Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower. Guess you'd say I'm on a roll... Good luck!