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Opinion
Don’t try to understand your dreams
I used to hate tearing about other people's dreams
and then we were in Kroger, and this checkout
clerk had thih big fuzzy hat on. and I said Hey, why
are you wearing that big fuzzy hat 0 ' And then we
were in the produce section and the clerks were
singing Stroh s. for real beer lovers
I really thought it was a drag People would start in
on this inane drivel from the nether reaches of their
minds, which only served to prove them boring to the
core, and I would smile and nod and look for the exit
I never told anyone my dreams, the only ones worth
retelling. I thought, were the nightmares, and you
can never really convey the horror
Then my roommate Kevin told me his rubber face
dream
I won't bore you with the* specifics, but his retelling
had the oppressive darkness of "Kraserhead'
coupled with the thematic unity of “A Clockwork
Orange " I blew off classes that morning helping him
get it on paper
It obsessed me for a while I ended up writing a
couple of really bad poems based on that dream !
mack' a conscious effort to remember my dreams, to
get them on paper if possible That's what got me in
trouble
Once you get past how you're going to feed your
self, who you're going to sleep with and whether you
want your tax money to pay for the raping of San
dinistas' wives, the questions get bigger, stranger
more amorphous When it's stripped down to you
trying to understand the self you only know through
dreams, it can be terrifying
Moonshots, subatomic physics and gene splicing
pale to absurdity in the face of the human mind
That’s really implicit, but it's a question of a whole
other sort It's not so much what your reality is and
how you can manipulate it. but what you are while
you aren't looking
I'm not sure that I ever endangered my sanity, but
I had it to the point where I could slip into a dream
state almost at will, totally different from self
hypnosis I walked around amazed at the sharp edges
of what I had accepted as reality simply because I
was finding how easily those edges could slice dow n
into a different w orld
I lost it. or passed beyond it. whatever, for one
reason I had. in reconciling inner and outer life
slipped from oneself perpetuating system to another
Art. psychology and religion all claim to provide
their own answers If faith doesn't bring happiness,
more faith is the* answer, if psychology doesn t help,
analyze further, more deeply, if art doesn't heal the
wound, bleed more freely Hut by trying to make
dreams more tangible thniugh poetry. I did one
thing, and by trying to analyze myself through
dreams. I did a thing totally at odds with the other
and ended up just about w here I started
Religion attempts to encompass psychology and
art for the glory of God. psychology attempts to
explain away religion and art as aberrations of the
overdeveloped human brain, and art attempts to In*,
in and of itself, that thing which others try to express
through religion or psychology Kach can satisfy, but
each seeks ultimately to destroy or subsume the
I 'll give you an example Yes. I m going to bore you
with oneof my dreams ........ ...
/ was on a beach of black sand with a blonde girl I
didn t know Pieces of rusted machinery stuck up out
of the sand cut the waves as they rolled in. I turned to
look at her and she suddenh became huge Her skm
was dun gray stone like Chartres, and her arms
stretched out over me like arches. She was perfect
sculpture the curves and hollows of her face turned
up to the sun Her ribs were buttresses sunk into the
sand ber breasts were peaked domes shining above
me in the sun I walked uround her. watched her legs
slope down into the surf Then she looked at me
These artificial systems don't work I've tried to
recapture the dream in poetry it's almost as useless
,.s writing i’ here, because the dream refined, boiled
down lo words, is such a pale image of the experience
that it doesn't even begin lo satisfy I've tried to
analyte with mv stilted Freudian viewpoint
dreams as mirrors of internal stress - but it's absurd
m light at that terrible Ix'auiy I've tried to look at it
as something Irom God, bul I know better than that,
it God intruded, he would send some comprehensible
message not a dream so whole and perfect it stands
apart from satisfying description or interpretation
The dream is reality unto itself sometimes Now I
listen to other people's dreams with fascination,
Irving to balance my ow n terms with their inability lo
express that other life It's kind of a sense of loss
knowing I c an never understand the source or end of
dreams, but that's not really necessary; dreams
themselves are enough
James Kendlc\ is managing editor of The Ned and
Black
Letters _
Artists and exhibit viewers should he commended
TO THE KDITOR
I wandemi through the art gallery in
Tate one day laxt week At first I
laughed at what was being considered
art At some of the things I had to look
more than once to realize that they
were exhibits (such as a beanbag
ashtry complete with butts and ashes >
With some things I wondered if they
were or were not part of the exhibit
(such as the flyers on a pedestal an
nouncing the exhibit» As I walked out.
the last thing I noticed was the first
thing I saw as 1 walked in — a single
blue laundry hanger sitting on a
pedestal sitting in the corner "Is this
another exhibit. 1 wondered or <as 1
first thought! merely a misplaced
hanger 9 ”
Alter leaving the gallery I walked
through Tate and glanced at one of the
many garbage can ash trays scattered
around < butts sticking up in the sand > I
thought. "Gee. if this were in the
gallery it would be art'" Then I thought
some more "Does where it is change
whuf it is 9 " Now 1 was getting
philosophical and I stoppH laughing
Nude stunt
unappreciated
TO THE EDITOR
about the art in the gallery Going a
little further. I thought "Everything
around us. absolutely every thing in the
world, may be art 1 (>r maybe, art is not
in things but in us 9 "
An exhibition is truly worthwhile
(anything is for that matter' if you go
away from it with a fresh view of the
world, if you are moved to profound
thoughts you've not had before Those
creative thinkers who contributed to
this exhibition at the Tate Gallery are
to be commended and so are the
viewers who use this exhibition within
themselves
I U K \ ELLEN Sill I.MAN
(iraduate. Religion
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In the past year at the University, we
have encountered some eyeopening -
or should we say eye-closing — ex
periences Although our mothers
warned us about wild college men. it
took the members of Phi Kappa Tau
fraternity to make us wish we would
have taken mothers' warnings to heart
We are pleased that these boys take
pride in themselves, however, we wish
they would learn to keep their "pride"
in their pants where it belongs, or at
least off Milledge Avenue
We are referring to a part of their
initiation which seems to entail running
nude down public streets and in private
homes Unfortunately. we have been
victims of these ongoings for the past
three quarters <W'e hope fate will be
more kind next quarter''
We would like to thank tin* other
i fraternities at the University who show
respect for themselves and others As
for the Phi Tau s, your behavior in
public makes us wonder what goes on
behind closed doors In closing we
would like to express our disap
pointment in our first human anatomy
lesson If we had felt the need, we un
derstand that Biology 101 is offered
here at the University
NAMES W ITHHELD
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Amtrak worth government funding
During any sort of purge or attempt at
streamlining there has to be a scapegoat During
President Reagan's attempt to streamline and purge
the Federal government of ineffiency ia very worthy
cause), he has chosen at least one program as his
scapegoat that is clearly an essential assest to the
country the passenger railroads
By eliminating all funds for Amtrak. the country's
only passenger railroad service, the Reagan Ad
ministration would make the United States the only
developed nation in the world without passenger
railroads It s hard to believe that our president
would choose to deprive the American public of one o(
the cleanest, safest and most efficient forms of public
transportaion in the world
Of course Federal spending must be cut. but amidst
all the number punching and paperwork there should
be some sort of grasp of concrete reality It should be
clear that Amtrak benefits everyone, not just a
particular special interest group Unfortunately, that
Is the reason that Amtrak is probably doomed
David Stockman, the Administration's calculator-
wielding fiscal axman. decried Amtrak as "an
irredeemable, mobile money-burning machine "
That all sounds very cute but the fact is that Amtrak
is running more miles in 1985 than it did in 1981. but
with 28 percent less funding
Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, who
was appointed by President Reagan, said that Am-
Irak has become a "modem, cost efficient, inter-city
passenger rail service ” The facts support Mrs Dole
Mr Stockman, however, points out that the
Federal government must pay *35 for each Amtrak
passenger But if the same twisted arithmetic were
applied to air travel, the government would pay *42
per person The Federal government paid *2 1 billion
tor air traffic control and other Federal A via bon
Administration services last year, but for 1986. the
-transportation secretary is asking only *765 million
for Amtrak subsidy That's *13 billion less than the
H illiam Smith
cost for air safety, bul apparently that's too much to
ask from an administration that's been accused of
representing i pardon the puni the jet set class of
America
But Amtrak is nol something that can be cleared
away like the LED numbers on Mr Stockman's
calculator The government will have to pay *2 1
billion in labor termination costs during the next six
years
And that doesn't even take into consideration more
than *3 billion in completely useless equipment that
the government bought with taxpayer money And
much of that equipment is in perfect working con
dition About 25,000 railroad workers will become
unemployed and 150.000 other jobs in related sectors
also will be in jeopardy That's a lot of lost tax
revenue and a lot more unemployemnt benefits out of
the Federal treasury
Amtrak carries 20 million people a year, many of
whom are in the Northeast and use the service to
commute Does David Stockman actually expect
people to drive into New York or Boston and find an
all-day parking space’
But Amtrak is perhaps o( most benefit to small
towns that don't have bus or air travel These towns
have relied on rail travel for more than a hundred
years, but what will they rely on now? Amtrak served
one million of ihese small (owns last year but
president prefers to doom them to geograj
isolation
Aside from the statistics. Amtrak offers a ti
unique form of transportation for Americans I
travel presents, perhaps, the best way to cross
land and really see the details and features that |
this country its identity One does not get the si
effect motoring down a 10-lane superhigh'
surrounded by t8 wheelers and chiropra*
billboards
Passenger railroads are simply an Ameri
tradition and it is ironic that a conservative
ministration that preaches traditional values wi
to eliminate such a vital part of the Amen
heritage
Amtrak. however, is not just an anachronism.
a modern service to the country that should hai
long future ahead of it because the idea makes se
Europeans have streamlined and modernized t
railroads so that it has become a remarkabtv
fieient way to travel and see their beautiful countr
But all of that takes money Rail transportation
been in the hands of the Federal government f<
number of years and it is unlikely that any pro
corporation could sustain the enormous service
Amtrak offers European railroads have long s
relied on government subsidies because the servii
expensive and not very profitable
The government has the responsibility to I
rail, auto and air transportation. Developing the r
energy-efficient mode of travel seems logical, but
leaders want to eliminate it.
The final decision is up to Congress It's up t
members to decide what we do and don't need,
only hope is that they can see reality despite
Stockman s perverted arithmetic and abst
arguments
William Smith is a junior in the College of Arts
Sciences