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Dream World

R. A. Lafferty

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It was the awfullest dream in the world, no doubt about it. In fact, it seemed to be the only dream there was!

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Galaxy Magazine June 1962.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

It was the awfullest dream in the
world, no doubt about it. In fact, it
seemed to be the only dream there was!

He was a morning type, so it was unusual that he should feel depressed in the morning. He tried to account for it, and could not.

He was a healthy man, so he ate a healthy breakfast. He was not too depressed for that. And he listened unconsciously to the dark girl with the musical voice. Often she ate at Cahill's in the mornings with her girl friend.

Grape juice, pineapple juice, orange juice, apple juice ... why did people look at him suspiciously just because he took four or five sorts of juice for breakfast?

"Agnes, it was ghastly. I was built like a sack. A sackfu. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Great! Taken right out of my comfort zone to the land of Strange Brain.

What a wonderfully profound book. This was everything I expected from Lafferty- pure surrealism and absurdity and etymological wit. Short stories don't get much better than this.