At least as far as Google can detect, “We know not where the moments spent” is a quote from nobody ever. The moments spent reading this work will be lost forever, with everything to be shown for it in a pointed gesture. As the mellifluous tones of a sousaphone drown the equilibrium in loud-acious sub-harmony...

This foundational and compendious anthology was not originally intended to be a book or a table or a tea cozy; maybe a tome. But not the kind of tome that you put on a desk. More of a writer’s block syndrome tome. Recently a few syndrome tomes have appeared on the NY Times best seller’s list under the category of Adult Children Fictional Non-Fiction. This collection of canard rantings and splendiferous musings was an exercise prescribed by several of the author’s most notable imaginary psychotherapists in a dream where the author was dreaming a dream about a dream. Embedded dreaming is the practice of instigating dreams within dreams, while embedded-bedwetting dreaming is the act of wetting the bed while dreaming about a dream, which can be aggravated by certain medications.