Re: crit: Not Your Father's Dream opening



On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:53:25 +0000, Jacey Bedford
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rec.arts.sf.composition:

> In message <43dee321$0$49524$8046368a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan
> Goodman <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>>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.

> Yes, nice!

> The only thing I might alter is to say that on Thursday morning I found
> _my_ checkbook... rather than a checkbook - unless, of course you meant
> to imply that he didn't have an account at the Bank of Nirvana.

I took it to mean exactly that, or at any rate that he
hadn't been aware of having such an account.

Brian
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