Kategorie: Stories and excerpts
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Metamorphic Dreams and Pipe Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/9. Our dream journey takes us to a particularly popular dreamland – to the realm of metamorphic dreams and pipe dreams. Cloud Images On the highest floor of the tallest skyscraper in the city, you are so close to the sea of clouds that the manes of…
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Underwater Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/8. In these dream worlds, you can dive into the weightless underwater realms, where everything is quite different from the world above water. In a sense, therefore, the underwater worlds are quite close to dream worlds. Behind the Gates of the Waves Immediately after the wave gates…
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Dreams in Times of Crisis
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/6 Life crises are a very fertile breeding ground for dreams: they open the door to the chamber of the unconscious. Sometimes they show us ways out of the crisis – but unfortunately they sometimes also intensify our gloom. The Hyacinth To your own amazement, you remained…
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Cosmic Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/5 In some dreams, we can do something that is beyond our reach during the day: fly. This is precisely what happens in the texts presented here: we float weightlessly through space and time and experience life in a completely different way. Bumblebee Flight On the wind…
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Dreams of Death and Decay
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/4 This stage of the journey through Zacharias Mbizo’s literary dream worlds is not for the faint-hearted. We are travelling right into the realm of Death! Stormy Day As soon as you open the windows, the wind, indulging in the rampage of its lament outside, ruffles your…
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Autumn Dreams
Autumn days are often shrouded in fog. Sometimes, however, they are bathed in the softer light of the fading year. Then they can radiate an almost motherly kind of comfort. Indian Summer The smile that recently had run away from you suddenly lay at your door again. Shivering, it asked…
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