tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post114798331053238146..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: DreamerSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1148075124814966432006-05-19T17:45:00.000-04:002006-05-19T17:45:00.000-04:00Hi alejandro, the poem is called A Dream within a...Hi alejandro, <BR/><BR/>the poem is called <A HREF="http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poe/Poems/Dream_Within.htm" REL="nofollow">A Dream within a Dream</A>, and you can probably find it in some Poe-collection, sorry, don't know an exact reference. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the nice words, rea ann :-)Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1148049507521286952006-05-19T10:38:00.000-04:002006-05-19T10:38:00.000-04:00The entire poem is just as interesting:Take this k...The entire poem is just as interesting:<BR/><BR/>Take this kiss upon the brow!<BR/>And, in parting from you now,<BR/>Thus much let me avow-<BR/>You are not wrong, who deem<BR/>That my days have been a dream;<BR/>Yet if hope has flown away<BR/>In a night, or in a day,<BR/>In a vision, or in none,<BR/>Is it therefore the less gone?<BR/>All that we see or seem<BR/>Is but a dream within a dream.<BR/>Rae Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239791074376508016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1148039493586480852006-05-19T07:51:00.000-04:002006-05-19T07:51:00.000-04:00Beautiful quote. Can you provide the exact source?...Beautiful quote. Can you provide the exact source? I tried a bit of Googling but couldn't find it.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure Jorge Luis Borges must have been aware of the line -not only the idea of nested dreams appears in many of his works, but I also seem to recall he uses an almost literal Spanish version of this quote once or twice. I didn't know it came form Poe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1148003339437880412006-05-18T21:48:00.000-04:002006-05-18T21:48:00.000-04:00A dream to some, a nightmare to others," Merlin/Ex...<I>A dream to some, a nightmare to others,"</I> Merlin/<I>Excalibur</I><BR/><BR/>Empirical reality may be ethereal, but it is certainly not disembodied. Nature is offhandedly enthusiastic about express delivering bursting cans of whoop ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com