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Good acupressure session today. Also had good lunch at BH's. Movie session with GH didn't go well--we had to stop watching the film. It was a movie called Salo or The 120 Day's of Sodom. The work was too violent and seemingly too real. I'm not sure what it would have eventually shown, but the little we saw was difficult to take. It has been touted as the 89th of the best 100 films. It has also been rated as the 65th most scariest film to watch. The last is surely true.

The film was set in an Italian town, Salo, which has three historical notes. It is the birthplace of Gasparo da Salo, one of the early makers of violins and related instruments. It was the location of the capitol of the Fascist movement led by Mussolini after he was liberated by the Germans. And, finally, it was the location and title of this movie. After watching Sweet Movie, I didn't think I'd have trouble watching any film--but this one was disturbing. The director, Pasolini, may have lived in that locale during some of the time it was under Fascist control. His father, an Italian military officer, was credited with saving Mussolini's life when Il Duce was liberated. However, Pasolini was anti-Fascist. He also had trouble his entire film career with creating works that caused upset and resulted in banned productions. He was mysteriously killed a few days before Salo was first shown.

Dreamed last night some kind of techno-dream. It involved some objects that had appeared in a previous dream segment. These objects were some type of encoding/decoding gadgets that could be mounted on the computers. They could be used to encode/decode packets of data that were being processed by the computers. I had found a way to use a particular set of the gadgets to create unbreakable codes, thus securely encrypting information. The dream revolved around several instances where the concept was being tested and verified. Dreams within dreams!

I continue to be amazed at what I can find on the web. There is so much information being captured and correlated--soon very little will be hidden--only that which someone truly wants to hide. I found a half dozen things today (people, places, data, and so on) with a few keystrokes and a bit of thinking. What will the weekend bring?