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Manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript — finished or not — often touches cherished hopes and the fear they won't come to fruition: realised if clearly written, disappointing if blurred or lost. The dream may ask what work or dream you're laboring over, and whether you can keep your effort clean enough to see your sanguine desires become real.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for manuscript, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of manuscript in an unfinished state, forebodes disappointment. If finished and clearly written, great hopes will be realized.

If you are at work on manuscript, you will have many fears for some cherished hope, but if you keep the blurs out of your work you will succeed in your undertakings. If it is rejected by the publishers, you will be hopeless for a time, but eventually your most sanguine desires will become a reality.

If you lose it, you will be subjected to disappointment.

If you see it burn, some work of your own will bring you profit and much elevation.