January 29/30 Dream

I awoke climbing a slowly curving staircase. At the top, to my right, was a wall of glass facing a wide river and some barges, a patio cafe, and to my left a magnificent tank. A huge eye passed me, followed by the mass of a sperm whale. I wasn't alone and the place had the structure of an organized aquarium--swirling light, quiet babies, carpet. I leaned against a rail to the back of me and saw that the tank extended for about the length of two or three football fields, several hundred feet deep. Sperm whales, humpbacks, rights, at the far end a blue whale drifting while the others circled it. And at the bottom, I could feel from the darkness there, Leviathan melvillei, lurking.