In a message dated 11/16/2009 3:59:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, palma@xxxxxxxx writes: > what a load > > > "last night I dreamt of my mother and tomorrow I'll dream of my father. I'll > make good subject for psychoanalysis" > > what is that blocks this sentence? ---- A load. Why is it that the implication is not "cream"? Malcolm has this book on "Dreaming". The problem is that academia cannot find a niche to have it in curricula. For under what course would you teach it. The problem with dreaming is not so much the "x" -- in "I'll dream of x", but the 'of'. Consider I'm dreaming of a White Christmas. Surely the person, or utterer, Malcolm claims, cannot be _dreaming_ if he is saying that he is dreaming (it is the anti-performative). What a closer analysis shows is that 'dream' is past-reflective, while 'die' is future-prospective. Cheers, JLS