lost stories and unsettling dreams
Aug. 23rd, 2007 07:02 pmThe terrible thing about reading bad or mediocre books is that I want to rewrite them properly. Except in most cases, I know I don't really care enough to write a book's worth of words, and I have no time anyway.
But the 'good' versions of all the bad fiction out there... they haunt me sometimes.
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In other news, I had a creepy dream last night in which a German officer was talking to Hitler near the end of WWII. Hitler asked the officer to find a young man so he could transfer his 'dream' to him -- his plans, his force of personality, maybe -- because he knew he was burning out and going completely crazy and he thought maybe a replacement would be able to win the war and establish the thousand-year Reich before the 'dream' drove him crazy too.
The officer was horrified at the notion of living, parasitic ideas, and refused. He also thought to himself that perhaps it would have been a good thing if the assassination attempt had succeeded, since he didn't want anything 'inhuman' ruling his country. Hitler decided that this resistance was proof of the officer's sanity and good sense, and was about to kidnap him and take him down into a bunker where Eva Braun was waiting with hypnotic drugs.
I woke up before I found out what happened.
But the 'good' versions of all the bad fiction out there... they haunt me sometimes.
...
In other news, I had a creepy dream last night in which a German officer was talking to Hitler near the end of WWII. Hitler asked the officer to find a young man so he could transfer his 'dream' to him -- his plans, his force of personality, maybe -- because he knew he was burning out and going completely crazy and he thought maybe a replacement would be able to win the war and establish the thousand-year Reich before the 'dream' drove him crazy too.
The officer was horrified at the notion of living, parasitic ideas, and refused. He also thought to himself that perhaps it would have been a good thing if the assassination attempt had succeeded, since he didn't want anything 'inhuman' ruling his country. Hitler decided that this resistance was proof of the officer's sanity and good sense, and was about to kidnap him and take him down into a bunker where Eva Braun was waiting with hypnotic drugs.
I woke up before I found out what happened.
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Date: 2007-08-28 01:05 am (UTC)