Caveat: … and War Dreaming

I suppose having read detailed war history all day yesterday, it was to be expected: I dreamed war dreams. They were quite odd, however. The war was being conducted mostly at KarmaPlus hagwon, where I work, and the soldiers were the elementary students. Their weapons consisted mostly of small index cards of different colors, such as I give the students for writing their speeches and notes for debate classes. They would draw various weapons on the cards then put them down in places in the hallway and other students would move theirs around. It was more like chess than war, in some ways – but a kind of free-form chess played on a very large and variegated board.

I think the dream had its origins in the detailed battle-maps of Halberstam's book, with their conventialized, rectangular representations of various units – companies, batallions, regiments, etc. – just like index cards.

[daily log: walking, 5 km]

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