in the dream

i am lost in new york after taking a strange elevator lined with bookshelves which has various pull chains and hidden handles. i end up first in an artist's 'cafe'-hotel' where i find a room and meet my twin for the first time, then, I get lost again, but this time mel brooks and fatty arbuckle are there to set me straight but it turns out they get me into more trouble. they show me how the entire city is actually berlin but is in brazil.. then i am very frightened as they are having me crawl with them over giant inflatable clear plastic pneumatic trash disposal systems which connect everything.. i go through mazes of painted escalators which look like old shredded taxi-cabs.. i get back in the book elevator, find my way to the "metropolitan opera" to see 'le jaundice' which my twin tells me is very good but sad.. i see a stain on the carpet at the met that looks like mel brooks.. the opera begins with a cannon ball being shot out of an enormous cannon.. it comes out like a bubble and cracks like an egg over the audience.. out comes venus with 'baby jaundice' on her shoulder.. 'baby jaundice' looks like a little boy dressed in seashell armor whose skin is made of gold underneath.. later i am drinking with my twin and he is telling me the story of how his art career went south after he saw 'baby jaundice'.. about a sculpture he made of a humanoid elephant set in a little wood whose trunk turns into a train locomotive, then a snake, and then fatty arbuckle mummified in trash..