Word: dreamt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to think there is a reason for that, that it isn't my mind in its own fashion censoring out something unpleasant which will one day surface to haunt me. I like to think that it has adjusted successfully--since that day I've often dreamt not unpleasant dreams about blizzards and death--and has been affected in a positive way--with a shift in my values and view of life...
...stopped, sat some more, walked another hundred yards or so, lay down on a rock, watched a middle aged fat man and his kids, all undoubtedly newly-arrived from Iowa in their shiny, sleep Winnebago, pass me by, bummed a beer from some longhairs heading down, slept and dreamt pleasant dreams about heat exhaustion and dying in canyons and the human equivalent of being slowly cooked in a Crock Pot. The last mile took as long as the first four had, and two ten-year old girls passed me on the way but I didn't care, I'd done...
Readers further learn that Shakespeare stole from Falstaff in other dramas too. Hamlet's elegant admonition, "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy," was really first uttered by Falstaffs disreputable pal Bardolph to confuse a policeman in a bawdy house. And that as early as 1459, Falstaff was reflecting: "I think for Hal the whole world was a stage and all the men and women merely players...
...people smile and think you are someone who'll listen to their worries, the ready handshake and the meaningful wink, seem to have been inborn or ingrained in Al, and it all works to his benefit. (I had a dream the other night in which Al figured prominently. I dreamt that, when he was born 61 years ago in East Cambridge, where he still lives, the infant Al Vellucci raised his hand to stop the attending midwife from slapping him into the first breath of life, and offering his pink paw to the woman, said, "How are va.") But while...
...case for us. If I, or any other member, attempted to dominate the Sociobiology Study Group, he or she would be strongly criticized, and if the behavior continued, the offender would be asked to go away. There is a whole world of social and political arrangements not dreamt of in Wilson's philosophy...