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

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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death since they learned how to write; never adding much to the subjects. The reviewer started his review by eruditely giving his unsolicited views on each of the subjects. In the middle of the 5,000 word review he was still doing so. His consistency continued to the very end. Understandably, I was impressed. Not only had he managed to write a review of a book whose subject matter can clear out a room more rapidly than a series of wet farts, he had done it in kind, without once making reference to the book reviewed. It’s so meta, the words float away. This man had done something-nothing which can never be topped. He is my hero and I can only wonder why Salon has not stolen him away from the confines of social networking.

In the adjoining room the Reader thought that he precociously read and the Writer thought that she childishly anticipated and wrote. Considerations, soon to be carried away by a windstorm, now weigh most heavily upon all else as they concerned themselves with an insoluble, futile, and pointless chicken-or-egg type of deliberation.

If he could successfully convey what had previously transpired, the Reader thought it possible that his review would outdo the best of the GFR star; if it wasn’t written in invisible ink; or perhaps if it was.