Sunday, July 6, 2025

Gloria

When I dream, I dream about books.

I dreamt I was in a listening room at a company that manufactures high-end audio equipment, which in real life is owned by a family I have known and worked with for years. I put an unmarked vinyl record on the turntable, and out of speakers worth as much as a small house came what sounded like a mashup of “Black Water” by Of Monsters and Men and the Spanish version of “Gloria” by the Chinese singer G.E.M.

I sat on a wooden chair in the center of the room, listened to the music, and thought about Hurricane Gloria, which had hit New Hampshire when I was living there in 1985, and how years later Gloria had provided the mental imagery for me when I first read about Marduk battling the fierce winds unleashed by Tiamat.

Presently I became aware that there was a large coffee table book on my lap. I opened it to the first page, which said only this:

The plant is the three pages just starred by an asterisk.

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Gloria

The first thing I heard when I woke up was that a typhoon was coming toward Taiwan and that everything would be closed tomorrow, making the hurricane memories in my dream mildly precognitive.


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Gloria

When I dream, I dream about books. I dreamt I was in a listening room at a company that manufactures high-end audio equipment, which in real...