MAURICE GAZING UPON CERAMIC TILE
THIS HAS HUNG IN MY HOME FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS.....
A SELF-PORTRAIT OF MAURICE CLIFFORD, SEATED ON A
TOILET......NO ONE HAS EVER COMMENTED ON THIS WONDERFUL
PENCIL DRAWING.......
WHAT DO 'REGULAR' FOLK DREAM OF?
I dreamt, last night, that I was in an incense-smoke filled room....filled with 'burners' with bronze dragons atop them....From childhood 'fairy tails' about fire-breathing dragons, I suppose, these images inundated my dreamscape....Awakening, I left my bed, half-sleeping, and decided to floss my teeth to remove a chunk of black walnut that was wedged in the open space, between a pair of back molars, awaiting a dental implant, and ventured by the light of the moon through a window, falling over a rolled-up oriental rug, stumbling into the harpsichord, from which fell a heavy Chinese censer with a dragon atop its lid.....some kind of synchronicity, happenstance and coincidence conjured abstract considerations of Cosmic forces at play with my imagination....then, turning a lamp 'on'....the room was just a room, with blue, powered incense spilling onto the sound board.....Sneezing from having inhaled some of the blue crystalline powder, I glanced at the carved...
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