Theme: Dreams
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In Oulipo’s running debate over whether to make the constraints it employs explicit, Perec usually came down on the side of letting the cat out of the bag - but La Boutique (remains) Obscure. Perec’s dreams are the same kind of crazy as most people's. He discovers hitherto unnoticed doors in his apartment, appears naked in public, has (or fails to have) sex with famous people.Read more
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I dreamt last night that weight was bread. More precisely, I dreamt that a kilogram was a loaf of dark, rye-like, round bread, about the diameter of a steering wheel. Read more
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Many philosophers consider the era of “modern” philosophy to begin with René Descartes’s Discourse on Method (1637) and Meditations on First Philosophy (1641). In these works, Descartes aims to ground human knowledge of the external, material world.Read more
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There’s a comic Freud used to illustrate his famous essay, “Interpretation of Dreams,” called “A French Nurse's Dream.” The connection between comics and dreams is apparently so direct even Freud did not feel it necessary to explain.Read more
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