2002-09-01 - 4:33 p.m.

I read this in a book

Ev related that in the silence before the appearance of the fog she had a hallucination. With her eyes closed she saw a strange, elf-like creature rolling a complicated polyhedron along the ground. Each facet seemed like a window onto another place in time or another world.

"It's the stone!" I breathed. I could almost see her vision of the lapis philosophorum- the glittering goal of centuries of alchemical speculation glimpsed in the Amazonian night; a great multi-dimensional jewel, the philosopher's stone. The human soul as starship...

A few months ago, I dreamt Keil and I were in separate corners in a room; suddenly a polyhedron was formed in the center of the room, changing shape and size as we glanced at it. We approached it, and both of our hands were extended - we had invoked the Stone