{"id":1577,"date":"2010-02-01T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2010-02-01T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:12:16","slug":"a-mystery-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/02\/01\/a-mystery-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A mystery dream…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday morning I awoke to the sound of caterwauling. It seemed to come from the sidewalk directly outside my bedroom window. When I first awakened, I didn’t actually understand what the noise was – at first I thought it was a baby crying.<\/p>\n

The voiceless voice in my head – you know, the one that typically keeps up a running commentary (unless you’re an enlightened monk or something) – “spoke” to me at the same moment as I awoke.<\/p>\n

It said, “What’s that noise?”<\/p>\n

Fair question. “I don’t know,” I answered (silently, of course).<\/p>\n

We (my voiceless voice and I) listened, and then, in my head, I voicelessly replied, “It’s a cat. Caterwauling.”<\/p>\n

A third voice came along, complementing the duo my own internal voice and I were dancing. He – I’m quite sure my voiceless …er, partner, in conversation seemed male – said:<\/p>\n

“Be sure to wait for the second part.”<\/p>\n

“What?” What was that supposed to mean? Oh, right: …nothing. This is all in my imagination, another one of those damn internal dialogues, except now it’s starting to turn into a party, …or at least a menage a trois<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I started to roll over, burying my head in the pillows, hoping the cat would soon stop.<\/p>\n

It did.<\/p>\n

Oh good, I thought, hopeful that I’d get back to sleep quickly. My own internal voice couldn’t help chiming in: “Wonder what that crazy shit about the second part was supposed to be about?”<\/p>\n

“I guess that was just a bizarre figment of your imagination,” I silently told myself.<\/p>\n

The cat was quiet, everything outside was quiet, I was ready to go back to sleep.<\/p>\n

And then a dog began barking furiously. From the sound of it, a big dog, Baskerville-sized.<\/p>\n

Except this one barked, unlike the fictional one.<\/p>\n

And that was the second part.<\/p>\n

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