{Two Dreams: Of swimming with fair-haired girls [continued]}[14th August 1988]

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This morning a dream of myself involved with a party of young girls* and an older woman in a swimming party from a beach, in a wide but otherwise deserted bay.** In this case the woman and the girls seemed to have, as if for swimsuits, curious flesh-coloured, regular skirt-like fins, garments or appendages (– a little like those in the illustrations to my addition of [Charles] Kingsley’s [book] ‘The Water Babies’, which I have in the past felt rather unnecessary, even irritating). The older woman (and possibly some of the girls?) also had another of these sets of ‘fins’ round the chest, in place of a bikini top; the younger girls had them only round the hips, as they were flat-chested. But that they were all girls I was in no doubt at all – one in particular leaping among the waves now rolling towards the shore (at an overcast moment) having a distinctly xS-ish look, although not perhaps identical. Later in this dream, on the shore, I had a problem finding my clothes among theirs – only to find that I had already (put?)# on the shirt I was looking for.

*(all fair-haired, I think)

**cf [1]: The Bay of Love? [– a feature of the [...]land in an episode which was removed from [1] during revision; the Bay is likely to be used in a later fiction – possibly [L]]

***[Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin. He was also the uncle of traveller and scientist Mary Kingsley. (– Wikipedia)]

****[The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in part due to its prejudices (common at the time) against Irish, Jews, Catholics, Americans, and the poor. (– Wikipedia)]

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