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Warm today! Turned sweltering in the afternoon. Can't beat the heat!

Read some more of the Rimbaud novel with GH. He's busy getting translations of Rimbaud's poetry and building up the narration that he will do. The novel is quirky and entertaining.

Watched a movie tonight--What Makes Sammy Run? The movie was taken from TV footage shot in b/w. It is an interesting film about Hollywood and the infighting that took place in early studio days. One protagonist, Sammy Glick, is the epitome of the hard-nosed deal maker who fights his way up the ladder, leaving bodies (lives) along the way. The writer for the work is Budd Schulberg, who also did such classics as On the Waterfront and The Harder They Fall. His life make an interesting story in its own right.

I dreamed last night that I had a shop that made models of things (buildings, cars, appliances, and more). I worked with two guys. We each had a workstation where we could fabricate prototypes. For some reason, we were having trouble creating a really level base for one item. I was working with the other two men, trying out different ways to level up the base. At one point, I told one of the men to try a rasp--use it to knock off the high spots on the frame of the base.

The dream changed to me sleeping in the woods behind an old house. I was in a sleeping bag and was in the bushes out behind the house. At one point, I heard footsteps in the brush. Someone was walking toward me. I awoke with a start!