THAT DAY

Family reunion. I talked mostly with my sisters.

ALTHEA is worried about her daughter, who lies to her and lives with rather shady, druggy characters.

MIRIEL went on & on about the Enneagram system with its nine psychological types or stages, telling me what type I was. I felt skeptical--and bored.

Just another human system I feel outside. Like family reunions.

THAT NIGHT

I'm a spy, and have been for years. I keep facing off against a team of two saboteurs--Muslim fundamentalists. One's a pseudo-intellectual guy, in it for ideological reasons I find pointless--just like a million other extremists. But the other...

She's a cheetah girl. Biped, digitigrade, short-furred, slender, graceful. Cheetah appetites (whether dietary or sexual) just aren't like human ones, and to me it seems crazy to follow a faith with a rigid code tailored for crazy monkeys, not cats at all! But she does. Wears a scarf. And nothing else.

I think she's a terrorist just for fun. Making us monkeys run and scream is even better than hunting.

She's a charmer, and uses it on me all the time. I do find her attractive--until I recall her values.

Today we've been fighting over an alien ambassador I'm supposed to protect--this short round woman (quite humanoid--can pass for Terran). I towed her through tourist crowds and city streets on a little wheeled cart. Now I'm trying to get her somewhere safe from the saboteurs, for the night.

At last, on a wooden deck high in Pacific Heights, I meet the two saboteurs and for once, I lose my temper and tell them off. They seem amused at my anger. My feelings toward the guy are unmixed dislike; but I'm troubled by the cat girl because (despite myself) I'm attracted.

I admit it, but then list the reasons I don't LIKE her: "Your violence, your dogma, and especially your constant lying."

She just laughs at the silly monkey. "What do you expect? You're not such a catch that I'd switch my faith, allegiance and whole lifestyle just to suit YOU."

Well... fair's fair. I'd never convert to her stupid, violent sect for HER. And yet... she did--for her teacher. A monkey like me.

Oh, despite her talk about cat independence she respects some monkeys. I just think she respects the wrong ones.

The one who calls himself her teacher, and that long-dead one who called himself a prophet.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Furry girl: Althea bought Miriel a fake fur. So...
• Cheetah: Miriel? So...
• The pseudo-intellectual might be Althea
• Rigid beliefs: enneagrams! Miriel talked down to me like a True Believer to an ignorant pagan, as if the enneagram system is Truth. There's no proof it reflects real life-paths.
• Deck in Pacific Heights: recently, at a party in Pacific Heights here in San Francisco, a backyard deck collapsed, killing two. I got hit for jury duty and had to visit the Hall of Justice, where I saw the pilings for that deck--Exhibit A in the lawsuit. Visibly rotten, yet the contractor didn't fix them. So the dream-setting hints at... justice? overlooking something deadly? shoddy pros, a rotten system?
• Hot cheetah girl: resembled a picture I saw, by Sonique on VCL (right). Big contrast between Sonique's gleeful smut and my dream of a smug violent fundamentalist. But both were sexy. And cheetahs.
• Mad at a girl who lies & sabotages to serve rigid beliefs:
  1. Althea's worry that her daughter lies to her, hiding drug use in her house.
  2. Miriel blathering about enneagrams? If so, the dream exaggerates. Boring isn't lying--or harming!
• ACTION: check that jury summons--I thought it was over & I was free, but be sure!
• ACTION: Do NOT date anyone I find sexy but immoral. I'm rarely attracted to sleazeballs; but the dream proved 'rarely' is not 'never'.
• ACTION: don't waste a minute on the Enneagram cult. Or Islam. I've read enough of the Qur'an to see it's just as fallible as any old book. Slavery, sexism, bah. And Muhammad was just plain wrong, claiming he was the last. The voice still speaks, speaks to all; the problem is, who listens?

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