La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams

Preface

Everyone has dreams. Some remember theirs, far fewer recount them, and very few write them down. Why write them down, anyway, knowing you will only sell them out (and no doubt sell yourself out in the process)?

I thought I was recording the dreams I was having; I have realized that it was not long before I began having dreams only in order to write them.

These dreams — overdreamed, overworked, overwritten — what could I then expect of them, if not to make them into texts, a bundle of texts left as an offering at the gates of that “royal road” I still must travel with my eyes open?

Insofar as I have sought some degree of homogeneity in the transcription and then the composition of these dreams, it seems worth giving a few specifications on their typography and formatting:

— a paragraph break corresponds to a change in time, place, feeling, mood, etc., felt as such within the dream;

— the use of italics, which is rare, indicates a particularly striking element of the dream;

— the greater or lesser size of the gap between paragraphs is meant to correspond to the greater or lesser importance of passages that were forgotten or indecipherable upon waking;

— the sign / / indicates an intentional omission.