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I was eager to tell you about it.
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That's very good.
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Go on.
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Actually...
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It happened in a church.
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A big, Gothic-style church.
During a ceremony...
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There was a very large crowd
standing at the foot of two ladders.
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One very tall, decorated ladder,
a "ceremonial" ladder,
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and another that was much shorter.
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It was either a coronation
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or for a... regency. I couldn't tell.
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All the citizens
seemed very... cheerful.
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And, in the choir,
on the very tall ladder,
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half way up and still climbing,
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there was the Queen of England.
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In person!
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She was richly dressed, with her crown.
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And, on the small ladder,
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there was my third grandmother,
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in a flowery-patterned dress,
the kind you find at the market,
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an old woman's dress...
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I was twelve. And I was
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in the crowd,
among the "citizens",
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watching my third grandma
climb her ladder.
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And, in the dream,
all of us in the crowd,
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we knew that each rung
on the ladders
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represented
a further degree of knowledge.
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Well, I guess
the Queen of England must be you.
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On my way here, in the ambulance,
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I was thinking about this dream of mine
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and I was wondering what it all meant.
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And, suddenly, I realized
it meant nothing at all.
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In fact, my dream was merely
a quote from a poem by Yeats.
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My subconscious had made
some cheap puns on an Irish poem!
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You can talk about it here.
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I think the whole dream
is just an allusion