Before the long dream of the movie, I dreamt that I was going to give feedback to a colleague in the German Department on his book proposal. In real life he writes beautifully, but in the dream he had submitted a dreadfully written proposal on Goethe and music to a publisher, and was surprised and disappointed to have it rejected without comment after having been encouraged by them up to that point. I had, somehow, to tell him what the problem was, but without hurting his feelings. The prose was turgid and full of jargon.
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