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'Our eunuch dreams' is about an experience of cinema. I am referring to the poem in a PhD on film propaganda, and came across it first - in the context of the quote Michael Chanan used for the title of his book on the 'prehistory' and early film history of Britain 'The dream that kicks'. I used this title subsequently in a Classical Association conference presentation on film. I would recommend this poem particularly because of its strong imagery and the ambivalent feelings it explores with regard to 'love on a reel', faith and mortality.
Trish Thomas from United Kingdom