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Interpretation of Dreams by Freud.
My favorite anecdote was about a boy who saw a chicks snatch when he was young and then had dreams of women staring at him with bloody eyes after. That just stuck with me.
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That's a tough question. I could probably give you my favorite essay, which would be "Personal History: The Beards", by Jonathan Lethem (particularly for the way that he describes his relationship with the Eno/Fripp record "No Pussyfooting"), but I'm not sure I've read enough collections to have a favorite.
Great find, and really cool plot ideas. I could read letters between writers (or anybody really) all night.
This one struck me:
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I have had a dirty suspicion since I was about six that all consciousness is one and that all the actors I see around me (including my enemies) are myself, at different points in the record's grooves. I once partly explored this in a story called BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS. I say "partly" because I touched on one point only—and the story was mistaken by the readers (most of them) for a time-travel paradox story...whereas I was investigating whether "the wine we thought we swallered could make us dream of all that follered...but we was only simple seamen so of course we couldn't know."
I wonder if this omni-consciousness would be centrally located in the narrator's head, while the narrator resides in some sort of solipsistic void, or would the world more or less be ours, populated by individuals, but individuals that are each living out the same reality through different perspectives? Lots to explore here.
I could read letters between writers (or anybody really) all night.
Were I in the business of creating new works of literature generally, or a writer specifically, this would make a great jumping off point for a project. One more creative than I could surely craft a great short story, novel, or anthology of inter-author communiques around such a concept.
Finished this. It's good to see Faulkner shed light on black loyalties and friendships with their owners following the end of the Civil War. You can't trust Hollywood, because all they show are blacks revolting and celebrating, but never the repercussions of post-war/reconstruction.
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