THE PROFESSOR (September 5, 2012)
I dreamt that I was visiting an ancient university. It reminded me of Oxford or Cambridge. Alone, I was only a casual visitor. I remember walking through long corridors clad in fine wood. In several places I saw groups of chairs separated from the corridor by delicately carved railings. In each enclosure of this kind there were five or six small chairs and a gigantic one. All chairs were made of fine wood. I guessed these were examination rooms, where anyone could witness an exam. The large chair was for the professor and small ones were for students. And then I saw an enormous man walking down the corridor. His pace was majestic, and I stopped to see him better. His gray hair on his shoulders, he was unusually tall and fat. He wore a crimson tunic with a huge purple cross embroidered on its chest. A large purple crown was embroidered just above the cross. A young man surrounded by several members of his family stopped him not far from where I was standing. It was clear that the young man was a student. He was pleading with his professor, but I could not figure out what he wanted. At some point he motioned to a young woman standing next to him, and she lifted her dress all the way to her breasts to show that she was pregnant. Judging by the size of her gleaming belly, she was about to give birth. The professor motioned to her to cover herself and turned toward the young man with a solemn expression on his face. This is when I woke up and missed his verdict, though. Before falling asleep again, I marveled at the world I had witnessed. The division between professors and students was no less than feudal.