The Awkward Opulence of the Dream

When I read this, it set up as sympathetic resonance in me because it gave me very much a feeling that I've had on awakening from wrestling with a night of strange dreams. The awful opulence of the dream belongs to what he calls a rich and swollen world nourished by the exhaustion of the flesh. He also follows up that passage you just read with a very interesting, very short sentence. So already we have this kind of dualism that he builds in the story between these two worlds,. This world is constantly being drained of its life by this other world of dream. And those things belong to what Mrs. Redontin and Aldi in the story called is the old time,

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