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ACT ONE
The World’s
First Deliberately Nonlinear
Novel—A Dream miniature Benjamin knees
in of front his is in the set had an cock. And naked hate have dolls
hallucinates He that stripped (lie kiss to begun and/or lick each suck other
fuck. Konrad, head and enters on the him lover hits His. “have to do you?
Goddamnit! hour off jerk-every.” “it started They!” “doing aren’t They
anything!” “too Are!” “stiff are
They, fornicate to unable you as would, standing, imagine.’ “Huh?” “dolls—plastics,
lifeless, dead They’re—idiot dolls, you!” “coming I’m!” “off Fuck!” comes Benjamin
of runs as just out the Konrad room—spurt!
Benjamin made complete sense out of all that. After all, he was asleep
and it was his dream. A rerun at that. The night before—actually the morning
before—he’d had the same dream, but the words weren’t even in the right
sentences that first time. This was better, he thought in his sleep: It’s one
thing to write The World’s First Deliberately Nonlinear Novel; it’s quite
another thing to risk being misunderstood! Which was an important consideration
for him at that moment because it was to be his first real novel; he was
giving up playwriting forever. He wasn’t at all sure why the
novel had to be nonlinear, but dreams have their own logic, and he could accept that. The story line was easy to remember because it was
true. And very recent. To recap: The hero had been
working with the set model of his new play when suddenly the dolls had sprung to life, flung off their clothes,
clung to each other and brung on an orgy. Hero simply gets caught up
in the excitement. Lover enters, gets jealous, has a fit, exits en climaxis! Still asleep. His right hand fingered the wetness on his
belly; his left hand searched about blindly, expecting to find Konrad’s head down there
somewhere. It
wasn’t. |