Not Pynchon but all about Me--and my Impoverished Unconscious. And Dan Simmons.

[Mark Kohut]

First; David, did Jung have an Impoverished Unconscious?

Woke up yesterday with no expectation that a post on Dan Simmons because
Bloom would
generate so many engaged responses. Including from many old friends who I
blend-copied
on the post. Thanks all.

Who included a real writer friend who called me up to tell me his Dan
Simmons story, which
was a wonderful anecdote, that he told chuckling. with writerly back-story
about a Writing Group
teacher worth satirizing which was done with perfect recollection of
details and words

included by my friend, Iowa Writers grad and already published by a major
publisher but working on a hard new tale
to tell was met with this from the "Teacher":

"Dan Simmons, you have to read Dan Simmons. ..........He shows you what you
need."

"What's that?", asks Writer.

"Framing", says the teacher to a writer who was always working on
"framing".

So, I had no expectations that I would f'in dream of Dan Simmons last
night.
But in the scattered fragments of a dream I mostly woke up not
remembering.--is this in Pynchon?--
I remembered this: I was holding a copy o*f The Song of Kal*i, paperback
with a female Conan the Barbarian--like
character on the cover, which I could only half see and in the dream I am
saying to myself, "Although I know
I am dreaming I know this book I just found is real, not in a dream"

I think I know where this bit of meta came from but it is not worth boring
you with.

Which this probably wasn't either but it is finished.