Re: crit: Not Your Father's Dream opening
- From: "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:31:03 -0500
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:10:05 -0600, Dan Goodman
<dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:43dee321$0$49524$8046368a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
rec.arts.sf.composition:
> Commercials first appeared in my dreams on a Tuesday
> night. "Teach your cat to drive!" "Guns for squirrels
> -- let hunters and coyotes beware!" "Not sure if
> everything in your refrigerator is safe? Use a Blashko
> divining rod, only 9.95!"
> Everyone has strange dreams sometimes. I didn't think
> anything of it.
> But the commercials came back Wednesday night. And
> Thursday morning, I found a checkbook from the Bank of
> Nirvana. The carbons showed that I'd written checks for
> the Blashko divining rod, and a love potion guaranteed to
> attract princesses who'd been turned into frogs.
It's a very Dan Goodman opening. From the overall tone I
would expect it to belong to a short story, though I don't
think that it would be impossible to open a longer work that
way, and I'd keep reading.
Brian
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