{A Dream: Of a Psychological Test Challenged [continued]}[30th July 1988]

[Redbook5:240][19880730:1118c]{A Dream: Of a Psychological Test Challenged [continued]}[30th July 1988]

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Along with others, I was walking through the wide passage outside the examination hall, towards the outside doors. Passing a student common room, I heard from the television a song, with concluding words something to the effect of:

‘… To be* an academic failure…!’

After which the presenter’s voice said something about the song being by ‘The Empty Space’ – a not impossible name for a singing group. The implications of this didn’t bother me at all, either in the dream or when I woke up, because The Empty Space (which is the name of Peter Brooks’ book on Theatre)** seems a clear complementary to (and receptacle of?) Christopher Logue’s ‘Vacant Force’,*** as well as a description of the Hollow Sphere, or the Crystal Ball (which now sits above the poem on my desk).

*or ‘He’s… [&c.]’?

**McKibbon & Kee(?), 1968; Pelican, 1972

***from ‘The Poet Mandel’sh[t]am’s Debut’ – stuck in front of me on my desk.

{(II. [[Redbook2:129-132][19780829:2025d]{Publication [continued]}[29^th August 1978]] 131}

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