Entry 15-01.21.19 in Book Two: The Fifteenth Year of the Third Millennium of the Common Era

Just stopping by to attempt to respond to notes. Keep pushing forward with bar study. And try to shake some dreams that keep coming after me. I’m starting to feel like a scene from one of my favorite movies:

There are no YouTube clips from this so I’ll simply “script” it. Grosse Pointe Blank; Martin Blank (John Cusack) sits in his therapists office having a tense session with Dr. Oatman (Alan Arkin). We pick up in the middle of this scene (Scene Start-Time Marker 00:11:56.... a great movie and a great scene but… I’m not going to write out a full 5 minutes of high dialogue film)

Blank: So what do we do? Do we talk about dreams? What’s next here?
Oatman: If you want to talk about dreams, we can talk about dreams. It’s your nickle.
Blank: Sure, uh, I had another one about Debbie.
Oatman: That… that girl you’re obsessed with?
Blank: Don’t you think obsessed is a strong word?
Oatman: Recurring dreams of loss and pain for ten years featuring the same person? Yeah… its… uh… a bit… excessive.
Blank: Uhm, I had one where I was that television mechanical rabbit. You know with the… the.. (makes cymbal gesture)
Oatman: The battery bunny?
Blank: Yeah, I was the bunny.
Oatman: That sounds like a very very depressed dream.
Blank: Really?
Oatman: Yes.
Blank: Why?
Oatman: Martin, it’s a terrible dream! It’s a depressing dream to dream about that rabbit! It’s got no brain, it’s got no blood, it’s got no anima! It just keeps banging on those meaningless cymbals endlessly and going and going and going! Our time is up.
Blank: Time’s up already?! You really wanna do a half a session?

(Personal Note: one of the things listed in my Godafather/Uncle’s Forbes.com profile is that he had an “integral role in introducing the Energizer Bunny in 1989” so… double humor/connection for reference to the Pink Lagamorph)