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The Importance of Dream Sequences
Dreams by their nature have zero stakes it's one of the moments where the reader's willing suspension of disbelief is most likely to collapse. Excessive exclamation marks do more harm than good and they're hard to use judiciously maybe we should just limit the people's freedom for their own protection except that you know as well as I do that every rule can be broken. The palm wine drinker breaks rules of grammar of logic of solving plot problems and it's brilliant just I can't really explain it Jim imagine the first line I woke after a night of uneasy dreams to discover my arse had grown fangs that's a novel I would keep reading pick your battles two adjectives to