This Is This

If there’s one things for self-indulgent than writing about myself, it’s writing about my dreams.

Dreams in which I am being selfish. Two things. Three - dreams in which I am selfishly finishing the Great British Novel.

Now, obviously I don’t write the Great British Novel for another nine years, but I was doing it in my dream. I was on the last sentence, when I was called to accompany some friends to a toy store, where they were accepting some kind of award.

I was writing the novel on a kind of handheld computer that looked like it was made by Fisher Price. Think Blackberry meets Speak And Spell. Regardless, it contained all but the last sentence of my latest novel. OK, let’s face it, my only novel, but the Great British Novel nonetheless.

I was on my last sentence - and it was a doozy - when we were summoned for the photocall for the prize to be awarded. I was so wrapped up in finishing the book that I posed for the picture with them and the toy store owner, as I typed the last words into the handheld computer.

I thought the last sentence was so brilliant that nothing else mattered. In the morning, all I remembered about the story is that either I myself or something in my control had gone higher than anyone or anything else could. I wrote the last sentence down when I woke up, because it was so clear in my head. In the dream, while I was having my picture taken, I kept repeating it to myself so I wouldn’t forget it and I could type it into the computer later, which is why is stuck in my head after I woke up:

Lofter and more lofty still; it was ever thus.

I remembered in the dream wanting to use a word other than “higher”, and also I didn’t want to repeat it twice in one sentence, which is how I ended up with “more lofty still”.

I kind of like it, but I’m not sure I would want to read all the words preceeding it.

Before I go, a couple of other things, more points of order really which I should have mentioned at the start.

1. A Lard Off My Mind - which fast on its way to becoming the UK’s number 1 lifestyle/weight loss/comedy crossover and breakthrough weblog in the British Female Group Blogger category. It’s very good.

2. This Is This Recommends - a selection of things endorsed by me. I came up with that title. (note to self: Add ALOMM to Recommended listings)

Anyway, look at that - it’s Friday. At least three readers of this site have said they are going to make bagels over the weekend, which is great, because I always suspected this site had some practical uses. Free mench to anyone who gives it a go and posts the results online. Also, Weekend Song as ever will feature. That much we do know.

Come back next week, when you’ve got the Negative Music Quiz, in whch you have to guess the artist of every song I own that begins with the word “Don’t”. (There are over 40 of them)

Have a great weekend. 

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