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The Tattooed Infant

Dreamed 1929/6/3 by Jindrich Styrsky

I am with Jindrich Honzl at a dance at the Budiŝ Inn in Vermêrovice. We're enjoying ourselves. But there is a plot against us. We intend to secretly slip away. At night we flee through the garden, through fields of beet and potato. We hide in a thicket in the woods.

Honzl and I are bound to poles or to beams in the middle of a barn or a gym. Around us in an orgy of dance are ten- to twelve-year-old TATTOOED BOYS. They are armed with sticks and make threatening gestures at us. In their midst we also see an infant TATTOOED WITH PORNOCRAPHIC IMAGES.

'Tattooed Infant', 1940 dream sketch by Jindrich Styrsky. Click to enlarge.

SOURCE: Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky (Twisted Spoon Press, 2018), p.60 ; primary source Sny, 1925-1940 ("Dreams, 1925-40") posthumously published (1970). Styrsky titled all his dreams "Dream of..."; I shortened to avoid a logjam under D.



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