rehearsal (n.)
late 14c., “restatement, repetition of the words of another,” from rehearse + -al, or from Old French rehearsal “a repeating.”
c. 1300, “to give an account of,” from Anglo-French rehearser, Old French rehercier (12c.) “to go over again, repeat,” literally “to rake over, turn over” (soil, ground), from re- “again” + hercier “to drag, trail (on the ground), be dragged along the ground; rake, harrow (land); rip, tear, wound; repeat, rehearse;” from herse “a harrow”. Meaning “to say over again, repeat what has already been said or written” is from mid-14c. in English. late 14c., “restatement, repetition of the words of another,” from rehearse + -al, or from Old French rehearsal “a repeating.” Sense of “practice a play, part, etc.” is from 1570s. Sense in theater and music, “act of rehearsing,” is from 1570s. Pre-wedding rehearsal dinner attested by 1953.
We cannot recall our dreams, they cannot come back to us. If a dream comes – but what sort of coming is a dream’s? Through what night does it make its way? If it comes to us, it does so only by way of forgetfulness, a forgetfulness which is not only censorship or simply repression. We dream without memory, in such a way that the dream of any particular night is no doubt a fragment of a response to an immemorial dying, barred by desire’s repetitiousness.
There is no stop, there is no interval between dreaming and waking. In this sense, it is possible to say: never, dreamer, can you awake (nor, for that matter, are you able to be addressed thus, summoned).
The dream is without end, waking is without beginning; neither one nor the other ever reaches itself. Only dialectical language relates them to each other in view of a truth.
