The usual form

[apropos]

"The message of the dream lecture was that there was something I had to avoid. It was a strain to formulate it. There as something I should beware, something that was not good enough

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[icecreamemperor]

Seriously, the world needs more academic disciplines where authors publish books in which they in-all-seriousness include theories they formulated in dreams.

[icecreamemperor]

I'm curious if this permissiveness is actually an anthropology thing, or just the things you seem to excerpt. But I also can't shake that part in Tristes Tropiques (basically the only part of the book I remember) where Levi-Strauss is like 'and now I will take 6 pages to describe for you the sunset I witnessed on the ship I was taking over to that place where I later did actual anthropology.'

[apropos]

This is actually a novel, but the protagonist is meant to be an anthropology graduate student. :)

[icecreamemperor]

Bah. I stand by my claim, even if it now lacks any evidence or relevance whatsoever!