Dreams and Portents
Dec. 9th, 2009 06:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowIn 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff writes:
"Part III begins - and God knows I quote -:
I mention this only because, last night, I had a dream which, among other things, featured General George McClellan. (He was upset because he'd tried to buy coffee from a vending machine and gotten a cupful of hot water. He handed it to me and ordered me to "tell them" - "them" apparently being the Math Department secretaries.)
"Part III begins - and God knows I quote -:
When, as a little boy, William Blake saw the prophet Ezekiel under a tree amid a summer field, he was soundly trounced by his mother.I'm with his mother. I mean, the back of the Lord God or the face of the Virgin Mary, all right - but why the hell would anybody want to see the prophet Ezekiel?"
I mention this only because, last night, I had a dream which, among other things, featured General George McClellan. (He was upset because he'd tried to buy coffee from a vending machine and gotten a cupful of hot water. He handed it to me and ordered me to "tell them" - "them" apparently being the Math Department secretaries.)
