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Feb. 17th, 2004 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I just woke up from a dream in which I was searching in vain for William Faulkner's novel "Pride and Prejudice".
Now of course, Pride and PRejudice was written by Jane Austin, but in the dream it was William Faulkner. I've never actually read this book either and I have no idea why it was suddenly so important for me to find it. I was at a school library and the librarian plus some random friend of mine (don't remember who exaclty it was, and perhaps I never knew, just a friend) were helping me search for it.
Along the way I saw shelves full of Oz books but I wasn't allowed to look through them to see if I wanted to borrow any of them.
Finally the librarian located the book. It was among dozens of special "speed reader" editions of famous classics. These were on a shelf out in the hallway rather than inside the library, and they were for sale and not something the library lended out. When I flipped through it I realized what "speed reader" meant... much of the book had been reduced to a sort of comic-book... there were large sections that were mostly pictures and dialoge, although some sections reverted back to actual text.
Anyway I was thinking that this simply wasn't what I was looking for... I wanted to read Faulkner's actual words... then I woke up. ^_^
Now of course, Pride and PRejudice was written by Jane Austin, but in the dream it was William Faulkner. I've never actually read this book either and I have no idea why it was suddenly so important for me to find it. I was at a school library and the librarian plus some random friend of mine (don't remember who exaclty it was, and perhaps I never knew, just a friend) were helping me search for it.
Along the way I saw shelves full of Oz books but I wasn't allowed to look through them to see if I wanted to borrow any of them.
Finally the librarian located the book. It was among dozens of special "speed reader" editions of famous classics. These were on a shelf out in the hallway rather than inside the library, and they were for sale and not something the library lended out. When I flipped through it I realized what "speed reader" meant... much of the book had been reduced to a sort of comic-book... there were large sections that were mostly pictures and dialoge, although some sections reverted back to actual text.
Anyway I was thinking that this simply wasn't what I was looking for... I wanted to read Faulkner's actual words... then I woke up. ^_^
