dream

For beneath the prettiness of Kozloff's maps is a point not about the comedy of our ill-informed ancestors and the imperfection of their systems of knowledge, but about the imperfection of such systems generally, and about a dreamingly feverish element in the inventions through which we order the world.

Although he admits that (i) to (iii) are incontestable features of experience, he points out that these features can occur within dreams (without externality) perfectly consistently: my dream-eating of the dream-apple can dreamingly satisfy my dream-hunger.

Then a tremendous metamorphosis occurs somewhere between youth and old age and we start to dreamingly look back to "the good old days." When it comes to handguns we do not need to look back -- we are now solidly centered right in the middle of the good old days.