[UA] Dream

[Robert Dushay]

>Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:
>
>> Last night I had a strange dream, or perhaps two dreams that were
>> consecutive and linked.
>>
>> Both took place on the outskirts of a huge city in the middle of winter.
>> The city was huge--rank upon rank of vast skyscrapers, all completely lit
>> up.  The city was surrounded by corn fields, though I think there may have
>> been a lake on one side.  There was no buffer zone between downtown and the
>> fields--no suburbs, no miracle mile, no sprawl.  Skyscrapers edged right up
>> to these cornfields, which had stalks on them even though there was
>> drifting snow on the ground.


Um, I think I just recognized the city. It's the Emerald City, from the
Wizard of Oz: it rises right out of the fields, with no suburbs, and
there's snow on the ground to protect Dorothy from the poppies, which are
in bloom.

--Bob Dushay
rdushay at mindspring.com



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