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waking?
The opening is about flotsam? Jellyfish? Intrigue. 11 9 25
“Couldn’t find the fit,” he said, meaning that he had been trying to lock the door through which the dreams came, but none of the keys had fit the lock.
A jam of actions and useful transition. First mention of dreams. Note started as sea foam the atomic attack and now overdose. 11 9 225
alive?”
Worth noting how responders know what's happening, and George is still reluctant to just go along, because it's wrong, and how does he dream this? 11 9 25
The little fellow was sicker than he looked.
Haberman is an interesting character. He knows. How did UKL create him so deftly? Great transition sentence. Little fellow diminishes George, but he is so powerful. 11 9 25
Haber.
11 9 25 Is Haberman a dream also? 11 9 25
Basic Support.
UBI 11 9 25
dreamed that Ethel had been killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, and the telegram had come.
parents
11 9 25 was the father mentioned earlier?
No, this fellow was no milquetoast.
Compare with earlier line , From little man to fellow. 11 9 25
“Because I don’t want to change things!” Orr said, as if stating the superobvious. “Who am I to meddle with the way things go? And it’s my unconscious mind that changes things, without any intelligent control. I tried autohypnosis but it didn’t do any good. Dreams are incoherent, selfish, irrational—immoral, you said a minute ago. They come from the unsocialized part of us, don’t they, at least partly? I didn’t want to kill poor Ethel. I just wanted her out of my way. Well, in a dream, that’s likely to be drastic. Dreams take shortcuts. I killed her. In a car crash a thousand miles away six
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Okay again did he dream up Ethel in the first place. Also conflict with Haberman is starting. Haberman is approaching ? as a clinician? Watch out George. 11 9 25
effective.”
word choice 11 10 25
Do you feel you relate satisfactorily to other people, that you have a niche in the emotional ecology of your environment?”
That is a great relational question. 11 9 25
accept.
Haber explaining George's dreams as a subconscious metaphor about fear of losing control or lack of control in real world?! What if I could guide r through that? 11 9 25
effectively
Word choice effective dream 11 10 25
Vicious-circle
Is this FC induction? 11 10 25
the Dream Machine,”
Read this story at five times. The description of the Dream machine is worth the reading. Seemingly possible and not all at once. 11 9 25
“Right in the middle of the graph, eh?
11 10 25 the most balanced person
induction.
Resolved 11 10 25
irresistible.
11 9 25 I know where this going enough for tonight. 11 9 25
v-c induction,
V C induction test in Blade Runner void comp test? 11 10 25 Voight-Kampff never mind 11 10 25
v-c induction
“Was it there an hour ago? I mean, wasn’t that a view of Mount Hood, when I came in—before I dreamed about the horse?” Oh Christ it had been Mount Hood the man was right. It
view!
11 10 25 slick good always brings back PBS film jarring brilliant
That geniality was not faked, but it was exaggerated.
Ignoring a lot of fine exposition, but this observation and new paragraph seems to do a lot of transition work. dystopian climate changed Portland to Haber.New understanding for the dreamer and reader. 11 10 25
“We’re getting somewhere, George!” “Where?”
11 10 25 Satire, a satire of therapy.
11 11 25 The tell that Haber was aware and manipulated George. George will figure that Haber wanted have George switch the murals back.
Did Haber think George would not pick this up? Haber also manipulated George from the beginning.
This we can do together. Now, doesn’t that strike you as right, as the right thing to do?” “I don’t know,” Orr said.
11 10 25 Haber drowns George with hype, and George remains skeptical.
He felt sick and stupid.
11 10 25 Wow
No matter how bland their content, he woke from them recalling them with intense clarity, and feeling broken and abraded, as one might after making an enormous physical effort to resist an overwhelming, battering force.
11 10 25 sex?
sick.
11 10 25
economy.
11 11 25 A certain bleakness dominates this narrative. Nothing seems terribly hopeful, it is worth considering what this communicates.
He was thinking again, having established his claim to the handle of the strap.
11 11 25 the focus on the strap mild routine and beautiful.
mountain.
11 11 25 UKL is too focused on structure for the narrative to go from the strap to therapy and it's subject matter.
He knew. He did see the first dream change reality. He saw the change. He believes me. I am not insane!
Should see if Haber has a tell. immensely pleasing 11 11 25
Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence.
Worthy of consideration. Value in speed of reason. 11 11 25
bulky.
11 11 25
He thought: Haber knows, now, that the mural has changed twice. Why didn’t he say anything? He must know I was afraid of being insane. He says he’s helping me. It would have helped a lot if he’d told me that he can see what I see, told me that it’s not just delusion.
A useful summary for everyone, especially reader. 11 11 25
upright.
Part of the loving description / world building, A slanted law office. 11 11 25
1984.
11 11 25 Jill Lepore We the people, interesting Nixon era vs what would happen.
sadly.
Very shrewd 11 11 25
Miss Lelache was countersuggestible, an excellent quality in a lawyer, but she knew she carried it a bit far.
So much heavy lifting, amazing results. 11 11 25
Now, it’s well established that under hypnotic suggestion a person can and will do almost anything, whether or not his conscience would permit it in a normal state: that’s been known since the middle of the last century, and legally established since Somerville v. Projansky in
“To change reality by dreaming that it’s different,” the client said, doggedly, without hope.
priceless 11 11 25
He made no sense at all and yet he didn’t sound as if he wasn’t making sense.
An observation for all, subtle. 11 11 25
“Dual time-tracks, alternate universes,” Miss Lelache said. “Do you see a lot of old late-night TV shows?”
Hack but great 11 11 25
“Well. Possibly. It could be managed, if there’s good cause. But look, calling in a lawyer as witness in the event of a possible privacy-infringement case is going to absolutely wreck your therapist-patient relationship. Not that it sounds like you’ve got a very good one going, but that’s hard to judge from outside. The fact is, you have to trust him, and also, you know, he has to trust you, in a way. If you throw a lawyer at him because you want to get him out of your head, well,
what can he do? Presumably he’s trying to help you.”
Oregon Oneirological Institute
rest.
This paragraph is a salute to world building. UKL was critical of her understanding of technology and role computers would play. This story glides along fine without it. It would take nothing for George and Haber to have smartphones.Missing adds or detracts nothing. 11 11 25
Lelache
League League Lelache....try to remember 11 11 25
the Elektroson or the trancap?”
