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THURSDAY, 6 AUGUST
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I still have the key to a flat I moved out of years ago, and it is on the ring with the keys I use every day.
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Taking it off would cost me nothing, so the reason it is still there is not effort, and I have stopped pretending I know what it is.
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Keys come up in dreams more than almost anything else that small and that dull, which puzzled me for a while, until I started paying attention to what was on the other side of them, and that took me longer than it should have.
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Because a key is not very interesting for what it explains about last night, and it is quite interesting for what it says is about to be put in your hand.
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A key is a permission
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Nobody dreams about a key as an object, because a key is dull on its own and only matters for what it is attached to, so what the sleeping mind hands you when it hands you a key is permission.
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The ones people remember are the near misses, the key that turns most of the way, the door that opens onto a wall, since a dream that meant no could have shown you no key at all.
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A near miss is a yes with a condition on it.
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What the condition is, you cannot learn from bed, so the whole thing points at your week rather than at your night.
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A near miss is a yes with a condition on it.
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