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BlastB00M
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:17 PM |
| There's an excellent thing on that. Let me find the link. |
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:17 PM |
Have a rasta angel who dies on an overdose of rum.
'nuff said. |
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BlastB00M
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:17 PM |
| Well, it's more of a quote on how dreams are most often treated in works of fiction. |
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:19 PM |
| I haven't had too much acid at all... I would have more, but the dragons in the kitchen keep pushing me away |
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:19 PM |
"There can be comparatively little question that the place ordinarily occupied by dreams in literature is peculiarly unreal and unsatisfying. When the hero tells us that 'last night he dreamed a dream', we are quite certain from the perfect and decorative character of the dream that he made it up at breakfast. The dream is so reasonable that it is quite impossible. An angel came to him and opened before him a scroll inscribed with some tremendous moral truth; a knight in armour rode past him declaring some ideal quest; the phantom of his mother arose to warn him from some imminent sin. Dreams like these are (with occasional exceptions) practically unknown in the lawless kingdoms of the night. A dream is scarcely ever rounded to express faultlessly some faultless ideas. An angel might indeed open a scroll before the dreamer, but it would probably be inscribed with some remark about excursion trains to Brighton; a knight in armour might ride by him, but it would be impossible to deny that the most salient fact about that warrior was the fact that he was wearing three hats; his mother might indeed appear to the dreamer, and give him the tenderest and most elevated counsel, but it would be impossible for the loftiest ethical comfort to entirely obscure the fact that her nose was growing longer and longer every minute. Dreams have a kind of hellish ingenuity and energy in the pursuit of the inappropriate; the most omniscient and cunning artist never took so much trouble or achieved such success in finding exactly the word that was right or exactly the action that was significant, as this midnight lord of misrule can do in finding exactly the word that is wrong and exactly the action that is meaningless." — G. K. Chesterton, "Dreams", 1901 |
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:19 PM |
| I think a chapter in a dream would be interesting. |
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reddanger
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:19 PM |
| That sounds interesting, it depends on how you lay it out though. |
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:20 PM |
it can work but if it becomes a reaaaally big part, and the novel itself is not based around dreams, it might not be the greatest idea in the world it's really your call, man
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| 10 Nov 2013 10:28 PM |
| Well if you're going to write dreams of a character, make sure it's important enough to be worth the reader's time, like don't make it filler. |
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