[UA] Dream

[Tim Rudloff]

Three ideas:

o    Many generations ago, the earth lived, and blood poured through the veins
of black and gray, and the hollow rocks had a purpose.  Then, the gods reigned
their icy wrath upon insolent men, and the veins of black and gray no longer
flowed.  The little hollow rocks crumbled, and only the big hollow rocks were
strong enough to survive the devil winds.
The hollow rocks are our safety.  The elders created light for the buildings,
and this keeps the wolves away.  The walls keep the devil winds away.  Hide in
the hollow rocks at night, and tend the crops by day.

o    To defend ourselves from the corporate raiders, we must arrange our
scrapers in a circle around the city, like a wall.  The tender and vulnerable
residential we will keep in the center.

o    The new realms of the spirit arrange around the different lifestyles of
people:  Agrarian, Industrial, Financial...  Where these realms border, the
local spirits and ghosts are in great confusion.  Example: The Buildings of the
Industrial realms poke through into the Agrarian, rising like a concrete
forest.  The ghosts of the industrial do not understand the wilderness, and
have trouble comprehending it as a "real" place.  Often, what happens in the
wilderness has no consequences or repercussions in the industrial.  The ghosts
of the Agrarian, sensing the invasion of a foreign presence, instinctively
attack.  However, their lack of knowledge or their enemies brings hesitation...
it becomes a series of raids and pot-shots rather than an all out attack.
Often, Agrarian gun men stand just outside the city, vacillating.


Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> Last night I had a strange dream, or perhaps two dreams that were
> consecutive and linked.
>
> Both took place on the outskirts of a huge city in the middle of winter.
> The city was huge--rank upon rank of vast skyscrapers, all completely lit
> up.  The city was surrounded by corn fields, though I think there may have
> been a lake on one side.  There was no buffer zone between downtown and the
> fields--no suburbs, no miracle mile, no sprawl.  Skyscrapers edged right up
> to these cornfields, which had stalks on them even though there was
> drifting snow on the ground.
>
> In the first scene, I was with some friends and we were making a very
> realistic snowman at the crest of a hill.  Somehow we were building it
> around the core of a tree or a bush or something, so that it looked like a
> man in white clothes aiming a pistol (which was a branch) down the hill.
> Then one of my friends said "Someone's coming!  Hide!"  We hid (in trees?
> In the rows of corn?) and a man came into view at the bottom of the hill.
> I knew that man was a judge.  Evaulating it in my conscious mind now, he
> must have had bad eyesight too, because he mistook the snowman for a real
> person and shouted at him to drop the gun.  The snowman did not, of course,
> comply.  My friends and I were giggling as the judge slowly tried to talk
> sense to the "gunman."  Then he dove to the ground and pulled a pistol from
> his satchel.  He tried to shoot the snowman, but his gun jammed.  Then he
> had a heart attack, and it slowly dawned on us that we were responsible for
> the death of this important man.
>
> Perhaps I ran away then.  I think the snowman was to the west of the city,
> and I ran to the north.  As I was running towards the city, I saw a
> confrontation between two teenagers.  One was coming out of the city,
> walking down a set of enlognated steps, his face hidden by blackness.  The
> other (who may have been male or female, I'm not sure) said something like
> "I know" or "I know what you've been doing" or "I know you," and the man
> with the shadowed face began chasing him/her.  I knew that the boy with the
> shadowed face was "the angleman" (or possibly "the anglo man") and that the
> race would judge him.  If the boy/girl the angleman was chasing could get
> to a door and get inside the city fast enough, the guilt of the angleman
> would be proved and all the teenagers in the city would be after him.  But
> if the angleman caught her (him?) first, he would do something terrible to
> her and no one would stop him.
>
> -G.
>
> Who is both curious and apprehensive about what the list is going to turn
> this into.
>
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