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TUESDAY, 18 AUGUST
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I have been putting three of these off, because each one deserves a whole letter and none of them is going to get one today.
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So they get short answers instead, which is the arrangement I like least about Tuesdays and the only one that keeps the inbox from silting up.
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All three turned out to be about the same thing, which I did not notice until I had them written down side by side on the back of an envelope.
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Names used with permission, as always, and I have cut everything except what the dream needs.
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Three of them, quickly
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Ola flew low over a market where she used to work, close enough to see the tops of the awnings, and the whole of it was whether the people below would look up. They did not. Which puts the interest in the watching rather than the flying, since she built herself an audience and then refused it the one thing an audience is for.
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Yusuf had not had one since boyhood and then had one on Thursday, which he described as being handed something back. He is old enough to have stopped expecting it, and is going through a change he does not name in the reply, so I will not guess at it. A dream that returns after that long is usually keeping time with something.
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Bernie flies badly. Low, effortful, snagging on hedges and telephone wires, and she has to keep working at it or she comes down. She asked what she is doing wrong, and the answer is nothing. This version is common, and nobody writes about it because it does not sound like the good dream.
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Bernie’s is the one I keep coming back to, because it is the only one of the three that sounds like most people’s actual lives.
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This version is common, and nobody writes about it because it does not sound like the good dream.
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