The PBS HewsHour had a story about whether people feel safe enough to return to theaters. “Absolutely not!” one person said. That made me think of something from Martin Buber that Matt Thomas quoted in a blog post.
Then the NewsHour went to Stephen Sondheim’s house. The house had a trick floor, with a small section of one floorboard that was held to the rest of the board by a metal pin at each end. A reporter pushed down on one side of the section, and it tilted, revealing $300,000.
When the house burned down, the money went with it.
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Monday, December 13, 2021
From the PBS NewsHour
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Ha! I appreciate the linkage, in various senses. I’ll add that I have returned to the theater a few times in 2021: the movie theater. But cautiously. If you wait a week to see a new release, for instance, there are usually very few people in the theater. Not so, I imagine, with Broadway.
Is this one of those dreams? If the reporter found the $300,000, why was it still in there when the house burned down? And why was it there in the first place? And why did Stephen Sondheim's house burn down? This week's The New Yorker has a story about a guy who inadvertently had his girlfriend throw away a hard-drive that had the irrecoverable key to what is supposedly half a billion dollars in bitcoin, and he can't get his town to dig up the landfill.
We have friends who have been to the movies a few times and report that they were the only ones there.
Yes, this was a dream, but I didn’t mean to be enigmatic — there’s a link to dream posts at the end. What I especially like about this dream is that it begins as plausible, before going off the rails. I can still see the floorboard, but I have no idea what happened to the bitcoin.
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