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-Gulliver's Travels quote: "I myself heard him give directions, that one of his Pages should be whipt, whose turn it was to give notice about washing the Floor after an Execution, but had maliciously omitted it, by which neglect a young Lord of great hopes coming to an audience, was unfortunately poisoned, although the King at that time had no design against his Life."-

Well, I suspect in real life not too many cereals go about having slugs in them, but there you go. I still didn't realize at that juncture that I was dreaming. Other notable segments of dreams last night: a prince coming to a pool party (after being presumed dead) and me being a turtle, and visiting the castle of a dead king. Still as a turtle. I think my survival tactic of consuming a travel mug of water before bed -- on top of my usual 2-then-3 milk has the fringe benefit of increasing my alertness (as well as the main benefit of keeping me from cooking in the heat).

Just a random fun fact for the day. Turns out, the note divisions we have in music may not be arbitrary. They may actually reflect important tones in speech. Learning this (from Wired) started me thinking, ok, so what specific tones do the notes correspond to? Can you make a melody that (tonally) closely mimics a real conversation?

Reality check. Music is a strange beast... one that apparently only gets stranger.