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From: ascott@pacifier.com (Alan Scott)
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Subject: Dream Log:  A Caryatid in the Wings (100 words)
Date: 11 May 1996 04:58:46 GMT
Organization: Everything That Rises Must Converge [Shriekback]
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Summary: Practice random eye movements for scenes of senseless beauty.
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  The photographer stands in the center of a dark, echoing concourse,
camera aimed upwards at the B-52 mounted overhead.  Its propellers - some
of them - turn slowly, fans that stir the smoky air. 
  He's searching for the same combination of stance, sunlight and angle
that for a brief flash revealed, to him alone, a female figure cast in
green light, supporting the wires and struts of an engine nacelle:  a
caryatid in the wings. 
  He missed his first and so far only opportunity to take her picture,
shoved aside by the crowds moving through the concourse.  But he keeps
trying. 

-- 
Alan P. Scott..........................................ascott@pacifier.com

     "We are made of dust:  all right:  then dust can think, dust can
know."
                                         --John Crowley, _Aegypt_