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Lunch with BH today. A delicious mix of pickled beets, salad, prawns and rice, cranberry juice and fruit. GH and I started watching Last Year in Marienbad and punted fairly close to the start of the film. It was chaotic, stilted, antiseptic, and many other things except engaging. It revolved around a man who was dreaming about meeting a woman whom he had met the year before. There is very little to like about the film and its contents. We ended up watching Hiroshima Mon Amour with the commentary running. It was a complex film that meshed documentary footage with scenes from France (the woman's memories and events) and the reactions of a Japanese man to the woman, her stories, and what had happened when Hiroshima was bombed. It was a more engaging work, but also suffered from being too purposeful, too self aware. This viewing may have ended our Resnais retrospective.

Dreamed an elaborate dream last night. In part of the dream, I am with some work associates. We are in an office and getting ready to head out for dinner. One of the people in the office is getting married and there is a reception dinner at a well know Indian restaurant. We end up driving to the place. This whole part of the dream takes place in an area of the city that has been the setting for some of my previous dreams. When we arrive at the place there seems to be some confusion on the owner's part about what's happening. There is no big table set up. We, the wedding guests, are scattered throughout the place. We proceed to order from the menu and that causes a problem in the kitchen. The kitchen had prepared some select dishes for the wedding guest. When people ordered from the menu, it clogged up the work in the kitchen. The kitchen ran out of ingredients and couldn't make some of what had been ordered. Many of the wedding guests sat for a long while without being served anything. The whole place was in chaos.

At some point in the evening the group I was with were taunted by some street gangs. We tried to avoid them as we approached the restaurant, but they were intent on giving us trouble. One of our group confronted them and managed to get them to back off. He was someone I had known a long time ago (in reality) and was someone who could handle a situation like we faced in the dream. At another point, I was explaining how someone could take a train back to the office area. I pointed out two train stations that they could use, and one that they should avoid. I had given these instructions to someone else in another previous dream.

In the dream, I was aware of the parts of the dream that had come from previous dreams. It created a strange feeling. Dreams with dreams within dreams!