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Absolutely Revolting
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Open Page with Paul Carter

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May 2014, no. 361

Why do you write?

Goethe said his themes were symbolic: it could have been any subject, but he wanted to write it all the same. Something is missing: I always feel this. Then I see how a pattern can be woven across the abyss.

Are you a vivid dreamer?

What qualifies as dream? I daydream a lot. Massage produces visions: are they dreams?

 


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