La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams

No. 95: October 1971

The hypothalamus

It starts with a few harmless comments, but soon there’s no denying it: there are several Es in A Void.

First one, then two, then twenty, then thousands!

I can’t believe my eyes.

I discuss it with Claude.

You might think I’m dreaming.

Look again: no more Es.

Still!

But then again, yes, there’s one, another, two more, and again, tons!

How did nobody ever notice?

Looking at neighbors through binoculars? One has the right to do so, so long as one respects special rules and confines one’s observation to spatiotemporal sequences (as when one plays card games of patience).

I decide (still dreaming) to call this dream “the hypothalamus” because “thus is my desire structured.” I should (in that case) have called it “the limbic system,” which is a more pertinent term for all that refers to emotional behaviors.