And he picked up the horn and he went into his bedroom for what he felt was for 15 minutes and he came out six or seven hours later and he had been in a reverie the whole time.

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His control of the scene is remarkable, but it makes one laugh, too, because in so much of the surrounding interview material, the director describes himself as a kind of medium through which a given movie passes, a mere craftsman in the service of reverie.

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The reverie from being high in the hills gazing out across a rugged landscape that stretches away in all directions into the haze brings the usual sense of calmness and well-being.

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It was like waking up from a reverie or witnessing a real life transformation into technicolor like in The Wizard Of Oz or to be more current, it was like playing with Instagram filters.

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The exhibition begins indoors, with portraits that were a shock because they captured women in the privacy of their homes, lost in reverie (Monet's "Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert, " 1868) or engaged in quotidian rituals like removing a glove (Charles Carolus-Duran's "The Lady With the Glove, " 1869).

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And so I leave you this morning as a gray mist spreads across the castle stonewall, gazing out at the rushing waters beyond lost in an Irish reverie.

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