I am intermittently famous for having very creative dreams, but had not had one such for one time. I had one last night, however. In it Loïc Wacquant, a person I have never met and have barely read, was a visiting professor in my main department, and was embodied as Cecilia Bartoli. S/he had an extremely lucid and rational, yet very passionate meltdown in the central office, beautifully sung in Italian-accented English. Everyone was impressed and since s/he was a visiting professor, his/her arguments seemed impartial. We were convinced at last to reform.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
“since s/he was a visiting professor, his/her arguments seemed impartial. We were convinced at last to reform.”
I love it.
That’s nice dear. I had a dream recently, and maybe you were in it. Actually it was some aristocratic speaking perfect French. it’s related to my role as candidate in Western Australia, for the Secular Party — and my concern about not getting enough nominations (not a problem, as it happens).
And on my form, for nominator, I had put Not notmyself. (I thought this would disguise the fact that it was myself nominating myself). And this French woman was commenting on this fact, in perfect French.
Ah, merci for compliments on my dream!
J – C’est un autre good dream! So you are running for public office?
I could be running for the public orifice. Well, at this stage we are a new party, made up of young people mostly from university. Actually, it is a party of young intellectuals and dissenters from the religious paradigm that is slowly taking over our world. So this is very early stages, and the party hopes to grow and grow, but we shall see. So, yeah, I will be standing as an independent.
Public “orifice” – so that is a pan-Commonwealth joke, I had only heard of it before from the British?
Congratulations!
Oh, I thought i had made it up. Interesting.