a prize (dream)

I am to win a prize or somesuch. Nominated for a medal. Medal is a medallion like a Roman coin as such held in paintings. Category or -isation. Hierarchy of an artist. Artist: Middle-aged. Eager. Hair cheveaux tousled.

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She is muffled and comes to my side. My secretary. Her slim back. Ease. Against the cold a scarf and saying nothing. Big blue eyes. Why so many posh people in Aberdeen? I suppose because of the oil money there. Says she, I represent the Scottish Philosophical Tradition. It was continental, like Scottish education. Caledonia is a cold corner where plants of learning thrive. They are hardy annuals. Home of a certain sophistication. How does it differ from the sophistication of the anglais? It is more demotic, and more sincere.

expresses itself in thought and image.

Not pure image but mediated in some way.

Or modified or en-thought-ulated, couched or clad in clouds of thought.

Out of slumber is born dreams, traumen.

Traum-atic. And out of dreams is born further slumber. The two are en-mixed with forgetfulness to make a sometimes banally winsome stew, insipid and about which not much can be said profitably.