Dreamworlds maintain glimpses. writer transports reader across thresho — M. John Harrison, Things Never Happen

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Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

M. John Harrison, Things That Never Happen

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