Alvarez, A. Night.

The fallacy of Surrealism is that all dreams are interesting. The truth is, other people’s dreams are generally as boring to the listener as they are fascinating to the dreamer. (There are many aspects of Freud’s life that his admirers have called heroic – his self-analysis, his originality, his persistence in the teeth of opposition, scandal and malice – but nobody mentions his valour in the face of boredom, his endless patience and attentiveness to his pateients’ dreams.)