RANDOM EXCERPT OF THE DAY: Chucker smiled, half-amused, half-disgusted. He had been listening to the story of Gina for weeks now, each episode blending with others, each session overlapping with the previous or an explication of an earlier discussion. The man surely was mad. Even so, he could not stop listening. Somewhere in the haystack of crazy ruminations was the golden needle he sought. Not a needle, of course, but a key—one that would unlock tomorrow. “It was a long haul that first time,” Sebastian continued. “We passed through several different worlds and never knew when or how we could get back home. It was frightening—and fascinating. Looking back, however—and I was much too amazed at the time to put it into any kind of scientific perspective—well, that had to be the scariest time of my life. Can you imagine stumbling through an invisible doorway to another world and not knowing how to get back? It’s pants-shitting time, my friend! Oh, sure, it happens all the time in those sci-fi movies, what, Star Wars, Star Trek, Star light star bright whatever I dream tonight—whatever. But imagine—hah, that’s the wrong word!—envision the experience where you, or any kid, do the same thing: let yourself be sucked through some invisible gelatin and plop! there you are in another world. And that’s not even considering the physics or biology, the how’s it work? part of the experience. How is this even happening? Is it something like a wormhole? I heard that term used on an episode of Star Trek one time when I returned to Earth for visit. Don’t believe any of that stuff; those TV shows are just science-fiction, pure make-believe. But, to answer your question, Chucker: no, I don’t think this phenomena is any kind of wormhole, just a...umm something else. I don’t explain’em, I just use’em. Anyway, the only thing Gina and I could do was keep going, so on we went through several different tangents—what we call the interdimensional doorways. So, eventually we found ourselves back in something rather familiar, what we call Ghoupallesz now, our home away from home.” --The Dream Land II (p. 256)
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