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[extemporanea]

I have to say thank-you to everyone for the expressions of sympathy over Fishie. I've very much appreciated it.

I'm more or less buried in marking at the moment. The latest batch was Lewis Carroll, which has led to an interestingly irreverent comparison. In Looking Glass Alice has to help Tweedledum and Tweedledee prepare for their battle:
...the

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Last Night I Dreamed

[schedule5]

Ahh - I used to have a truly spectacular dream involving a thunder god, me, and a shack...(picture me with a wistful, nostalgic gleam here :D ).

Re: Last Night I Dreamed

[extemporanea]

Thunder gods and their great big hammers...

From your phrasing, it sounds as though this was a recurring dream? Wish I had my subconscious whipped to give me spectacular recurring dreams. The only recurring ones I've ever had a are deeply, deeply weird, even for me.

Re: Last Night I Dreamed

[schedule5]

Definitely recurring. But most of my recurring dreams are indeed more on the wierd, nightmarish side of the dream spectrum, instead of the multiple... recurring side.

[strawberryfrog]

Re the dream: If it was a computer game, was it pixelated? Were you looking straight down long corridors? Were the conversations stilted and formulaic? Did you pick your action from glowing words in front of you?

[extemporanea]

My computer game dreams seem to be high-res Oblivion-graphic quality. Landscapes, not corridors. The narrative mechanisms are computer-game, but not the visual ones, if that makes sense. I was following quests and picking up stuff, but otherwise it was reality. Good special effects on the fireball, though.

[strawberryfrog]

Oh look, Stephen Fry uses wordpress!

[extemporanea]

I actually really enjoy the way he's blogging: he hasn't subscribed to the whole set of cultural conventions around look, length or anything else. He has things to say, and he employs just as much of the technology as he needs to say them. So, yes, ugly and obviously Wordpressy blog, but in a feisty, individualistic way. Go Stephen Fry!

[strawberryfrog]

Using wordpress isn't a bad thing. Wordpress is great. We use it, e.g. here. It's so simple that you can just get in and go, and it does lots out of the box - RSS feeds and all. Or you can use loads of plugins or themes, or even program with it if you know PHP.

Mr Fry has clearly just got in and gone, and that's no bad thing.

[herne_kzn]

Quite. Thanks for posting this.