[Redbook2:273][19830512.1815]{A
Dream: The Frozen Serpent [continued]}[12th
May 1983]
19830512.1815
[continued]
The
image of the blind serpent from this dream* was used at the end of
'[1]'. But I have just read R.A. Nicholson's translation 'Rumi[,]
Poet and Mystic', Prelude, Footnote 2: 'The “frozen snake”, or
dragon, which symbolises the carnal soul, is never so dangerous as
when it pretends to be utterly subdued and crushed.... A hunter
discovered the monstrous creature, half-buried in snow.' This
presents the dream in a potentially different light, so perhaps I
shall write down these 'story' dreams in future.**
*[See
last previous entry]
**You
mean you haven't been?! (I think I thought narrative dreams to be
less significant than those I recorded). <870812>
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