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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I should mention that I did not know the song “Gloria,” nor the singer (who is apparently huge in China), until July 5, when I saw someone wearing a T-shirt that said “GEM Revelation” in blue-green and looked it up. The music video is quite synchy, particularly in connection with my baptism two days previous.
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