Chapter 9: The Piyyut of the Djinn

In Episode 9, “The Piyyut of the Djinn,” opening chapter of "The Proceedings of the Academy of the Dream Society," the narrator and his beloved arrive at the Academy of the Dream Society and encounter the mysterious Registrar who admits them only with a cryptic password, from a piyyut tied to a rain-making djinn, Af Bri. Surreal initiation rituals, probing examinations, and intimate encounters with the librarian explore memory, interpretation, and the strange bureaucracy that governs entry into the dream world.