... Just, just,just tell me straight...the, as much as you can
remember about the dream in thirty seconds or less.
thirty seconds?
or whatever.
ok, and what is the criteria for dreams?
this was the 'end of the world type dream' with the a
nuclear bomb there.
um hum-, okgreat. But that was the category 'the end of
the world'.
yes.
ok so tell me when to start.
oh-, I'm we're rollin'here.
oh, ok. Well a m'dream was really more about the statue-,
than about the end of the world. But I dreamed that there
was a going to be a there was a war, and that the planes
had this is an old fashioned dream cuz there arn't any
missiles in it. And the plane had gone overhead and had dropped
the Atomic Bomb and everybody was running around and the bomb
fell and PERSONALLY hit me in the forehead and knocked
me
out. And what the dream was really about, and it didn't go
off. And so, I was a hero, because it, it, it pointed out
the futility of war, and, so then, the problem was then how
to design this sort of statue to put up that was like me,
prone, on this marble slab with a atomic bomb sticking out
of my forehead. THAT´S IT!
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"Performance
artist Larry Williams called me one day and out of the blue asked me
to tell him about a dream describing the end of the world. Luckily I
had one. The audio is taken directly from his tape made over the phone.
I`ve always thought this dream was influenced by Vienna and the Plague
Monument. This column is covered in putti cavorting in heavenly clouds,
celebrates the city`s emergence from the Black Death. Someone told me
that the carvings were so crude, that the clouds look like mashed potatoes,
because all the good artists had died. Pointy objects, the end of an
epoch, and self sacrifice by default all came together in this dream."
(B. G.)