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True Dream

Inferno Canto 30

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Even as one who dreams that he is harmed
and, dreaming, wishes he were dreaming, thus
desiring that which is, as if it were not,

so I became within my speechlessness:
I wanted to excuse myself and did
excuse myself, although I knew it not.

(Inferno, Canto 30, tr. Mandelbaum)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, dir. Fassbinder, 1972.

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