Poetry

RESEARCH

Dear Prof,

We were wowed about your wheeze to project on a screen the people’s dreams, because of the shortages of creative resources with over a million channels (figure to be checked) at our media station. As you know we know, except us, everyone dreams and all dreams are exceptional and exotic, and maybe, just maybe, excerpts could be spread, like thin jam, to the four corners of the TV network. Estimated heap of dream stuff over X (awaiting computer print out) times the area (weight?) covered by waking images, likewise over Y times the area covered by day to day gossip. Nightmarish to sift and sand it down, as it were, but what a bang the drum for democracy! Most of us chatterers remember dreaming before your science ( your last project, prof - remember me, yours truly, first assistant?) helped us to haul all the stuff up to waking non-sleep states via the mediation of meditation, banishing forever, for us at any rate, dreaming, as such. We are grateful for this extraordinary capacity to inject it, strikingly and wondrously, into thoughts and talks everywhere ( well, at least amongst ourselves, since we don’t get out much these days- all that work, but we love it, the artiste’s burden!) and our gratefulness is unabashed, like home made pea soup or apple pie. There is a technical hitch - which is why we need your support for research- which is that prelim. findings show that all we can access at the present moment are images and stories in the heads of subjects about crime, wild life, costume drama etc.,  in short our programme categories.
Appreciate that this is an informal request only,
Yours imaginatively
Sebastian                                                                                     
(Team Director, Channel for Channels)  

John Quicke