The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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section, repeated over and over. This might have been satisfactory for a short story, essay or poetry slam, but he had paid for and expected a novella. The Reader thought that this kind of petty annoyance was much too trite in its inferences and assumed that there must have been some kind of mistake.

Upon return to the bookshop, he discovered that the volume, which he thought was written by his GFR correspondent, inferred but not clearly stated on the glossy jacket, that it was actually by a different writer known only as “The Lady Traveler.”

Given the seeming choice between the two, he went for the Traveler. He is quickly joined by the Other Reader, known as Valeria. The Reader is annoyed, but not deterred. But, after he has returned home this copy turns out to be by yet another writer and contains 23 pages repeated over and over, as does the next, and the next ................... .

Posed with a difficulty, the Writer considered trying to do a GFR-type of review patterned after the ultimate one done by one of Goofreads’ highest rated reviewers. The exalted one had covered the final Christopher Hitchens’ book, which concerned God, the devil, right, wrong, death, everlasting life, and all those things with which we know people have been beating to