Had one of those half real dreams last night, like when I make up a joke during a dream that's almost funny on remembering it in full daylight. Or hearing a phrase from a poem, like "drowning in stars' milk". This time it was a quiz: "List all the facts you can think of about the Charles River". I half-woke still working on the list and continued:

• Governor Weld jumped, fully clothed, into it.
• The Back Bay used to be an actual bay (partly on the river), and stunk, until it was filled in.
• Quentin in The Sound and the Fury committed suicide by jumping off a bridge (probably the Longfellow) into it.