VLVL [8] When BV possessed her

[Paul Mackin]

Now Keith tells us. This is ironic. He is the one who got me to reverse my
hesitance to reread VL and now he admits he's not doing it himself. Oh
well. :-)

As far as anima is concerned, it occurs to me that the
Madwoman-in-the-Attic guise which Brock's  anima takes  is a fairly
commonplce type of nightmare. I get them myself occasionally. One thing
possibly significant is that nightmares are thought by some accounts to
afflict particularly people suffering from lung or breathing ailments.
"Sufferers of deseases of the lungs dream of suffocation, crowding and
fleeing, and are remarkably subject to the familiar nightmare." (The
Interpretation of Dreams, p. 68--please excuse the reference.) Now I ask
you-all isn't it significant that only a few pages earlier in VL  there
is a rather confusing incident of  choking on a hamburger and someone
owing his life to someone else in connection with it. Anyway I thought I'd
mention it.

				P.