the Blackthorn Orphans
  • B L O G
  • The Blackthorn Orphans: read it onsite
  • The Blackthorn Orphans TRANSLATIONS PAGE
  • Lovely R BLOG
  • PHOTOESSAYS
  • SELECTED RAVINGS: essays & opinion
  • RUBYHUE Lipstick Review
  • blackthorn ROSE REVIEW
  • KITCHEN BITCH: Recipes etc.
  • verse
  • Hostile Witness FILM REVIEW
  • ALOES & SUCCULENTS
  • Blackthorn Perfume Review
  • B I O
  • C O N T A C T

Remembering Dreams

1/7/2014

 
Picture
Travelling sort of through India and South East Asia but also somehow South Africa very briefly, on a bus and crappy planes; everything is coffee-brown dusty and sweaty and dated and worn out looking.  We travel for too long to appreciate anything when we get there and have realised the ridiculous nature of our schedule.  At an old border control-style facility with ceiling fans, the actress Anne Hathaway, flanked by an army of paparazzi on one side of the customs desk, argues with a couple of Thai monks about her possession of birth control pills.  They don't agree with this immoral western expediency.  They are grumpy and taciturn and unmoving and she is dressed in brand new black and is full of disbelieving annoyance.

We go to India and see an evil mountain carved in the form of a sage or bodhisattva in an attempt to contain and mollify its resident influence.  We are taken to a shrine called a needle waterfall, which is a narrow shaft of sparkling geode-like white quartz, running vertically through the face of a dark brown cliff that foots another mountain.  A special caste worships there; elephants have been carved into the low stone barrier around where the vein of quartz disappears into the ground, as though to contain its power.  It is an ambiguous and unsettling place, full of strange energy that I can't decipher.

Then we come to a place we'll be staying at, this time deep in a western city with tall decrepit red brick buildings in a tightly-packed commercial/industrial area, down at heel and very old New York.  In the ground floor of our particular building is a shitty cafe run by an old woman.  We try to sit outside on a variety of shitty tables and chairs but the space is too narrow and it's too dirty and noisy with traffic etc.  

We go upstairs to a dusty old hotel room and discover that we need to attend some sort of ball or gala.  In the musty drawers we find an amazing selection of weird ball gowns with super heroine themes, constructed of rich vintage fabrics; they are folded in cushiony layers.  One has a Wonder Woman theme with prints of her on the vast skirt and a moulded plastic bodice that, no matter how hard I try to hold, it seems too long.  I think about how I can possibly steal some of these amazing dresses and go down the stairs for some reason.  On coming back up, I notice that someone has drunkenly scrawled instructions to a lover in blue chalky pencil on the stairs, directing him to her room and telling him to be quiet on his way up and not disturb anyone.

REMARKS  Well, shit.  This dream is about a month old now and I forget precisely what was going through my head at the time, but it looked and felt quite atypical.  Anne fucking Hathaway what?  The foreboding mountain is from a story by Jim Corbett about the demon of Tresul which we had recently reread, and that imagery has always scared me.  The great shaft of white crystal running up the cliff and into the ground was such a strange vision, titanic and impervious and imbued with a mighty, if indecipherable, energy.  Like a great glistening spinal column, though utterly inorganic.  It impressed me as something central around which my perception revolves, some indestructible influence or axis in my life.  It was very humbling.  Wish I knew exactly what it was.  image: wiki

*   More freaky shit Here   *



Comments are closed.

    RSS Feed

    Picture

    Independent Creativity
    Hi-Fi Introversion

    ORIGINAL CONTENT
    HONEST REVIEWS
    VELVETEEN VERBIAGE
    VISUAL LUXURY
    MORBID IDLING
    THE NATURAL WORLD
     
    ​photography  
    film
    flora  fauna  culinary
    ethnography  objet
    ​

    modest living
    ​vintage shit

    A U T H O R
    Picture
    K ✂︎ l l y
    congenital delinquent
    Human Durian
    celebrating
    glorious deviation in the land of
     the long white cloud

    -  New Zealand  -


    - T h e   B o o k -

    Picture
    T H E  
    B L A C K T H O R N
    O R P H A N S


    What is freedom, when it is
    all that remains to you?
    In exile two brothers pursue an anarchist's trajectory,  from an old world into the new, from East to West, subject always to the pleasures & horrors of an enduring flesh, to the ironies of karma & impunity. Love bears thorns, the lost return & the dead are haunted by the living. 
    ​

    E P I C   D A R K   F I C T I O N
    *   R E A D   *
    T H E
    B L A C K T H O R N 
    O R P H A N S
     O N S I T E  

    H e r e



    Picture

    Selected
    ​Ravings

    opinion essays observation private regret public 
    exaltation semicoherent speculation 

    Picture

    Photoessay​

    epic undertakings
    documented

    ​
    Picture

    Hostile Witness FilmReview

    Cruel but fair

    Picture

    RubyHue 
    ​
    Lipstick Review

    Lipstick: love it
    ​

    Picture

    Our Photography​

    we've seen worse
    ​

    Picture

    Port Chalmers​

    Dunedin, New Zealand
    ​

    Picture

    Blackthorn ​
    ​Rose Review

    Garden Hoe Wisdom
    Picture

    Verse​

    Loss, love, truth, beauty everything, everything
    ​
    Picture

    The  Lovely R's Blog​

    Likes photography  Knows a bit about it

    Picture

    We Liked This​

    Amazing things from other people
    ​

    Picture

    Cacti, Aloes
    ​&
     
    Flora​

    Our garden & general vegetal splendours
    ​

    Picture

    KitchenBitch

    Home cooking
    & raw ingredients
    ​
    Picture

    Ethnographic​

    Strange wonderful things from elsewhere
    ​

    Picture

    Jewellery
    ​

    Picture

    Tiny Little 
    Dinosaurs
    - a book for children -


    All images & text property of the authors 
    ​
    unless stated

    © us
    & original sources
    All Rights Reserved



    Picture

    Privacy Policy
    ​This is a noncommercial site.
    No ads. No shady data jacks. 
    No interest in your bizniz.

    ​We don't personally view, utilise or sell your data, apart from occasionally checking totally anonymous + super basic site view stats. We don't even know how to monetise that stuff, so don't worry.  Everyone's privacy is important to us.

    Our platform is probably harvesting your data, though, via their cookies. Look at their privacy page so you can see what they're up to.

    Please use Adblock or something similar.
    ​
    Google et al superimpose ads that we never see a penny from so fuck them.

    Picture

    Archives

    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013


    Picture

    Categories

    All
    A Thing Of Beauty
    Blackthorn Orphans
    Blackthorn Rose Review
    Cacti & Aloes
    Ethnographica
    Flora
    Hostile Witness Film Reviews
    Jewellery
    Kitchen Bitch
    Make Up Review
    Maximum Respect
    Perfume Reviews
    Photo Du Jour
    Photo Essay
    Places & Things: A Blackthorn Review
    Port Chalmers
    Remembering Dreams
    Roses
    Selected Ravings
    Softcore Rendition
    Sweetmeat
    Textiles
    The Lovely R
    Verse
    We Liked This

    Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.