This Inconvenience writer asserts that cutting is an easy way to spoil and/or remove a dream.
Because this is an Inconvenience, it can be inferred that it is another person’s dream that is to be ruined.
The writer asks her readers to consider their own applications (which may be context-dependent) of the word cut.
She has chosen the 1892 text, The Surgical Diseases and Injuries of the Stomach and Intestines by Frederic Bowreman, as her primary source.
Cut
Here is another Convenience advertisement attempting to persuade potential buyers that dreams can be created or changed using a commercial product.
If only it were that easy. Or is it?
Roy’s Dreaming Powder is the greatest of time and labor savers to the dreamer.
Seasoned with Roy’s Dreaming Powder, visions are superlatively light,
sweet, tender, soothing, and wholesome.
This Convenience is from the Whimsy tradition, one of my favorite traditions.
Locate Whimsicalities:
It is marvellous [sic] how much amusement
can be got our of tantalizingly bewitching
Ideas and Images.
The creator of this convenience relies totally on the potential client’s visual sense, as there is no text attached to the image.
Each reader is left to scan the image for meaning, without clues.
The creator seems to suggest that there is a medicinal (or, perhaps, magic) potion that can be prescribed to a client for sweet dreams.
There are certainly some convenience practitioners supporting this idea.
Most, however, argue that some work is also required.
