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Game on...on the radio...Dodger 2-Atlanta 3...to learn a new song, with my trumpet, I'd break it down into small passeges, just a few notes, sometimes just a note, if really high, and practice practice...going slow...one learns to go fast
Going slow sewing
One learns to pick up more speed
Not like some machine.
AI last post noted Birds select their materials carefully nest building and have variety of skills to weave as they do...
You leave me behind
My sluggish mind befuddled
By hummingbird style.
🦋Dream: Trying to think of term for a tray that makes things...reruns...it rests before me...a sprawled creature walking towards me on the tray...then the tray again...I'm walking where the parking lots are...rerun Valley scene...look up to orient...and I'm before a giant ravine, going up and up, no rim in site...and it is covered with broken up rocks, slenderlike slate, and colored, reds and tans, jumbled...and so steep the rocks sure to fall...they stay put, and I have a long look at the scene...oh, I think to plein air paint the rocks, the ravine, going up and up...I wake up...
🎶the rocks were big, un-like the rubble going up Mt. Dana, but like that, they are everywhere on the slopes near the summit, and these everywhere in the ravine with no rim...I have many Valley rerun dreams...often as a vagabond looking to sneak a campsite...and the Valley different...different Valleys, like different planets...this had to have been prompted by my mosaic on and on last post...rather leave a dream be what it is, than hook it up to things awake...but, but comes to mind the 3D Lego painting, and that was back aways...Dodger 3-Braves 3, bottom of fifth...archaeology don't bother me...all the mummies and skulls, I mean...tho I know from childhood movies such can make me pale...but all my heroes are passing!...Dolly Parton today...song weaver...oh, dream weaver song...wanted to point out, that "weaving" is an oft used metaphor..."dream weaver" someone elses lyric...been meaning to find Dolly's lyrics-said she wrote hundreds of songs...Dollywood DreamMore...she looks to understand side by sides...polysynthesis...one strand woven with another strand...Ohtani on desk...to top of sixth...she does a trio with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris of Cosby Stills Nash and Young song...check that...Neil Young sang and wrote After the Gold Rush...the girls did the cover...and Young now Dolly's age...hmmph...had something in mind for today...oh...retrieved it...
"Passing down a stitch passes down a worldview, linking the ancestors who gathered the roots to the hands shaping them today."
🎶AI last post...AI is impressive...it's gone from yes or no, wrong or right, to "beauty"...the "sublime"...the tear in the corner of the eye...Hollywood has the same algo rhythms...with the same detachement...mercenary detachement...can't gainsay their draw...beyond my say...Dream Weaver song Gary Wright...an astral travel take...1975 new age era anthem...new age strong thru 1985...I imagine there is a fantasy fiction genre that is on about our night journey from dusk to dawn...
✨️fantasy fiction genre that is on about our night journey from dusk to dawn...
The literal "dusk to dawn" framework where a story transitions seamlessly across a single night's threshold maps closely to two distinct concepts in fiction: Nocturnal Fantasy (often overlapping with Urban Fantasy or Dark Fantasy) and the classic literary archetype known as The Night Journey (or Nekyia).
When a story is explicitly paced around what rises at dusk and falls at dawn, it usually belongs to a highly atmospheric, time-locked style of speculative fiction.
🌌 Nocturnal & Liminal Fantasy
This subgenre functions within a strict chronological boundary: the magical world only exists, awakens, or can be navigated between sunset and sunrise. The narrative momentum is dictated by the ticking clock of the coming dawn.
◦ The "Dusk to Dawn" Economy: The entire economy, society, or magic system of the setting operates in reverse. Human civilization retreats, and a hidden, supernatural world takes over.The Liminal Atmosphere: These stories heavily lean into dream logic, illusions, shadow magic, and the quiet, distorted reality of familiar places after dark.Key Examples:The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, where a magical venue arrives without warning and is strictly open only from dusk to dawn.Defy the Dusk by Danielle L. Jensen, featuring a fractured world where civilization must actively ride the dawn or fight what rises in the night. [1, 2]
Mythological & Psychological Roots: The Night Journey (Nekyia)
If the phrase "night journey" is treated as an overarching trope rather than just a setting, it refers to one of the oldest storytelling structures in human history.
In myth and classical fantasy, a Night Journey represents a descent into the underworld, darkness, or the deep subconscious from dusk until dawn.
Dimension
Narrative Purpose
Mythological Echo
Dusk (The Descent)
The protagonist crosses a threshold, losing their anchor to the normal, waking world.
Entering the Underworld / Egyptian Duat
Midnight (The Abyss)
Facing trials, shadow-selves, monsters, or existential reckoning in absolute darkness.
The Sun God battling Apophis in the dark
Dawn (The Emergence)
Returning to the sunlit world transformed, holding new wisdom, healing, or a hard-won truth.
Spiritual rebirth and resurrection
In modern dark fantasy, weird fiction, and psychological horror, authors use this single-night structure as a canvas for existential exploration. The external monsters encountered in the dark serve as physical manifestations of internal trauma, memories, or the collective unconsciousness of humanity.
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If you are looking for a specific book, series, or author that matches a particular storyline you have in mind, tell me:
• Does the story take place in a secondary fantasy world or a hidden layer of our modern world?Are the entities of the night literal monsters (like vampires and fae) or more abstract, dream-like forces?Is the journey a physical trek across a dark landscape or a time-looped single night? [1, 2]
🎶welp, it's, it's the head in the bucket tale...a savant grabs the King's head, submerges it in a bucket of water...losing consciouseness, he wakes up on a shoreline, stranded...he's rescued, taken in, and in a strange land finds a new life...then, then, the savant pulls him out of the bucket, and he's back being King...lot goes on in that story...thing is, he forgets one life, lives another, and returns...our skulls are the bucket!...is that the Ladyhawke movie?...a couple seperated by day and night...one is human during day, one is human during night, and never the twain can meet, or some such, as...oh...let me find that...
✨️The movie you are looking for is Ladyhawke (1985). [1, 2]
Plot DetailsThe Curse: The medieval fantasy film tells the story of two lovers, Isabeau (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Navarre (Rutger Hauer), who are cursed by a jealous and evil bishop. [1, 2]
The Manifestation: The curse forces them into a perpetual state of separation: Isabeau transforms into a hawk by day, and Navarre transforms into a black wolf at night. [1, 2, 3]
✨️king head in bucket of water lives another life
This phrase refers to a famous traditional Sufi teaching story (often told about a Sultan and a traveling sage or dervish) that illustrates the illusion of time and the vast potential of human consciousness. [1]
The Story Summary
The Challenge: A Sufi mystic visits a king or sultan. Skeptical of the mystic's claims about spiritual dimensions and the relativity of time, the ruler challenges him. The mystic tells the king to plunge his head into a basin or bucket of water. [1]
The Alternate Life: The moment the king dips his head, he instantly finds himself magically transported to a desolate seashore. Stranded, he goes through an entirely different life: he marries, has a family, loses his fortune, and struggles for years as a poor laborer in a marketplace. [1]
The Awakening: After living through years of hardship, grief, and survival, he falls or bends down to wash his face in a water basin—and suddenly jolts back to his grand palace, with his head just pulling out of the original water bowl. [1, 2]
The Lesson: Furious, the king yells at the mystic for putting him through years of suffering. The mystic smiles and replies that only a single second had passed—demonstrating how the mind experiences time subjectively and how entire realities can pass in the space of a single breath.
🎶or pass in a single "stitch of time"...missed game...Dodgers 3-Braves 4...Guardians 0-Angels 2...third inning..."vast potential"...time for cats and roll out for snack...
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