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The narrator recounts layered dream sequences and waking reflection that trace his yearning and anxieties about a woman he loves. He experiences a dual consciousness that observes and participates in visions: on an icy Alpine plain an unpassable crevasse bars reunion; in a desert a promised cup of water shatters before his lips; and on a tropical sea a drifting boat and luminous islets alternate solace and unease. Between visions he meditates on the origins and psychology of dreams, treating the recurring images as symbolic trials of desire, fear, and the precariousness of intimacy.
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