Brian Hamilton-Vise

I know that what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand. —James Baldwin

Cantaloupe

I had a dream last night wherein I was perched precariously on a very small ledge, in a room made entirely of cantaloupe. Below me was nothing but a deep, black abyss. The perch, too, being made of cantaloupe, and with no hope of rescue, I had no choice but gradually to eat away my foothold and fall to my death.*

If only I could achieve this level of dark and kooky imagination in my waking life, I could probably make a decent living writing mock horror films for some niche market. —Actually, no, I almost certainly couldn’t make a decent living doing that.

p(small). ==*== Actually, of course, I did have a choice: why not just eat into, maybe even through, the wall? But these obvious solutions never occur to me in dreams.

5 March 2009 | Comments (2)
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» On 5 March 2009, R.O. Flyer said:

Yeah, you have a way better chance of making a living as a theologian! :)

» On 5 March 2009, Ben Myers said:

Wow. In all my life, I have never had a dream as cool as that.

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Brian Hamilton-Vise is a Ph.D. student in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame, where his research is in the history of Christian political and economic thought. His side interests are in the development of negative theology and in recent political theory. Email him at bdhamilton@gmail.com.

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