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RE: Depression Glass ...Part 5 ...Seeing Through a Mirror Darkly
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She looks like the way I picture your heroines.”
This suggests she reads his stories - which means he is now in trouble, since he wrote this...
I had wondered where you are taking this story to - and I like the way you handled it, allowing your protagonist his little adventure and moment of wild magic, and then you let him return to the real everyday world....which needs dreamers like him (and you) so that we can bear those times that challenge our attempts to hold on to our humanity.
Thanks, Arthur - hate typo's.
Yes, time is dilatory and a rainy day can provide a dreamer with the right ambiance to enter various virtual realities and thankfully return to his own world relatively unscathed and sometimes chastened and wiser :)
Well, it did serve more than one purpose: his relationship with his wife was moving in the wrong direction and it seems thr experience shocked him back into appreciating her again.
second benefit: At least he got to kiss a girl from the 30's
third...we can assume she also benefitted, though she could not return to let us know.
and then...fourth, us your readers had a benefit also - a good story to take us out of our own petty worries for a while.
You see things so clearly, my friend. I must admit I was focussing on the first purpose but it does beg the question of what became of Blythe back in the Thirties? Does the arrow of time work in one direction only?