
Ivan had a dream last night. He dreamt he wrote effortlessly on a piece of Japanese silk paper. He was conscious, in the dream, of the tawdriness of his situation: scribbling demented inklings on a sheet of material deserving better treatment. “The sea raises its heavy fist up to the sky and pounds the shore with a roaring sound”, he wrote. He stopped. “The sea aims at cohesiveness in a raised fist up to the sky before being smashed to pieces”, he wrote. Over and over like a swivelling carrousel, he went on. He stopped without stopping. His brain paused but his hand carried on. There was an alien breath gushing through him, a streaming will traversed his eager self. The words came out on their own accord. He soon got fed up, there’s just so much a man can take, he thought. He quit. The hand went on. His body, his entire miserable ensemble of blood and bones was devoted to writing a story about the sea. Why, for logic’s sake, about the sea? -C.H. Lawson