AN EARLY DRAFT (July 13, 2007)

I dreamt that I was reading an early draft of a hefty doctoral dissertation and writing comments on each chapter. I do not remember how many chapters there were, but my comments were rather similar throughout. There were quite a few things that were wrong with the thesis, which was packed with methodological flaws, and much was still to be done by the student. Besides, the text was awfully boring. The dream was thus quite tedious, almost a nightmare. I suffered through both the reading and the writing of comments, but there was no way out of the miserable chore. I simply had to do it. Only when I woke up I realized how lucky I was not to see another early draft of a doctoral dissertation ever again. Never ever. Judging by my dream, I suffered through many an early draft in my days.