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This is how dreams were told….”It was brown and had a shell, a creeping reptile, about seven inches long, about two fingers thick at the head, gradually tapering towards the tail, so that the very tip of the tail was no more than one-fifth of an inch thick. About two inches from the head, a pair of legs came out of the body, at a forty-five-degree angle….” And so on. How does one remember all these details?

"But even so, what a nasty and all-satisfied little pimple that nephew of Lebedev's is!" What a nice little analogy! My brain is actually envisioning a nasty little pimple that is somehow very satisfied with itself. And a person at the same time....