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[poliphilo]

In last night's best-remembered dream I was browsing over an historic battlefield (now a nicely kept lawn) picking up little chips of brightly coloured glass.

I woke up in the wolf hours and worried about things. These days I'm savvy enough to know that wolf hour anxieties dwindle in the light of day. So I told myself that and went back to sleep.

The starlings are using the rabbit's water bowl as a bath. 

A chap came round this morning to check the gas meter to make sure we weren't defrauding the supplier. Apparently people switch the pipes around so the little cogs run backwards. He was very chatty. He said we'd be having rain or snow this weekend and I said I'd prefer snow.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

The wolf hour: I had never heard that phrase, but know the time painfully well. I almost always awake between 3:00 and 4:00, often never sleeping again.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I got it from Ingmar Bergman. I assume it's his coinage, though I suppose it could be a common phrase in Sweden.

[sovay]

I assume it's his coinage, though I suppose it could be a common phrase in Sweden.

The phrase exists in Russian as well. It may be a northerly thing.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

The first Google hit I followed yesterday said the phrase originated with Bergman, but I see now he may have been more of a conduit than source.

This morning I woke around 2:00, fell asleep again and slept through it. Life is predictably perverse.