tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18504899.post4450659010654164769..comments2023-03-28T09:02:36.129-04:00Comments on fighting fire with unlit matches: I'll tell you thisHunter R. Slatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539386604451745462noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18504899.post-46018050773848035372006-10-19T11:23:00.000-04:002006-10-19T11:23:00.000-04:00I think you’re right about Dylan’s meaning, at lea...I think you’re right about Dylan’s meaning, at least in this quotation (I haven’t heard the entire song): <br />“With no attempts to shovel the glimpse<br />Into the ditch of what each one means<br />At times I think there are no words<br />But these to tell what's true<br />And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.” <br /><br />The ineluctable logic of dreams is so dependent on the fact that signified and signifier match in a dream world—that the glimpse (word) and the ditch (the meaning) correspond without gaps or room for misinterpretation. Quaker-obsessed me reads these lyrics as a comment on how dreams, like the Adamic language of the garden, are in an unreachable space where everything they mean matches up to everything you see—where meaning can be correctly interpreted by you and you alone. But sometimes, I think, the meaning makes it out, and can be shared. Maybe onomatopoeia is the word version—in dreams, sometimes an image or a scene has the same effect, corresponding exactly to your outer world, whether it predicts something that you already know will happen, or confirms something that you didn’t want to accept. (I put a lot of stock in dreams.)Chuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11898356632356460774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18504899.post-89224235595378130412006-10-05T08:43:00.000-04:002006-10-05T08:43:00.000-04:00I read recently that dreams don't have meaning. Ra...I read recently that dreams don't have meaning. Rather, they are a byproduct of the brain's attempt to organize thoughts and experiences as you sleep. The parts that we remember when we wake up are the parts that were particularly difficult for the braing to file away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com