Orbiting eye. Dark woods, mist. Bavarian crags. We zoom in on Two sisters. Their brother marries. Newlyweds and sisters move into Castle Lorelei. I guest. A creepy keep; expressionist Arches drunken lean. Giant--übermenschlich--but so stark. For no wallspace free for tapestry. Mail, axes. Angles sharp as Gothic . My view of all three women's tilted too, as obtuse as walls askew: Three blur to One! Names, faces gone--if I'm near. A close-up curse. One room away, I know the quirks of all, as clear as him, but then... Back in the banquet hall, see just one Jungian blur: Woman. It's sure One girl bears some charm. Valkyrie arm? At least not Sauron's Ring; for three robed Woman, visible, stand. Is it the old Rhine gold? Maidens blur, though still a man's a man. That old Teutonic harm.

NEXT MORNING

• The old spell: patriarchy. I just saw two films, Baobab and Salma. In each, traditionalist Islam blurred devout men's view of women into Woman. Archetypal. Generic. They weren't invisible; it wasn't as pure an evil as Sauron's ring. But bad enough.
• Rhinegold: some of my ancestors farmed the Rhine Valley. I think the dream's pointing out sexism's hardly unique to Islam. Until a generation ago, the Europeans and Americans now calling Islam backward, alien, and hopeless were under quite the same spell. And many are still.

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