pocket

for the past few weeks, i’ve been reading war and peace for a class, approximately one hundred pages a day. recently, characters from the novel have begun appearing in my dreams. they usually don’t play a big role and the way they appear is not necessarily congruent with their novelistic identity. for example, i’m pretty sure prince andrei was leaning against a wall-papered wall at a party holding a beer. he never spoke, but i knew he was there; he was wearing a sword. but let’s be honest, if someone was going to show up in the party scene of my dream it would probably be anatole kuragin (who i like to call the tim riggins of war and peace. i can totally see him half-drunk saying “moscow forever”).

i can’t recall dreaming about novels before and certainly never as a recurring theme. i wonder if it is simply the length of the book that is causing it? anyways, i really like it! have y’all ever dreamt about characters from a novel before?