Very odd experience last night, of falling
asleep as I was reading… which I quite often do… but last night I was in the
middle of Jamila Gavin’s potent and heady fairy tale collection, ‘Blackberry
Blue’ which I’d been sent as a present by Nick just yesterday… I was fading out just before the end of
the story called ‘The Purple Lady’… and the first I knew of it I had the characters
in the story actually telling me what was going on… that they were on a mission
to save the hero’s sister… by collecting up the fragments of her skeleton, and
then her disembodied eyes… and then, looking for her soul, they were crossing
the lake where it’s fatal for your reflection to be caught… and this is the
thing – I was there with Bernard Socks, who had fallen asleep on top of my
legs… and we were both on this boat, heading towards the end of the story and
the characters were telling us – really clearly – ‘We have ran out of story,
you fool! You’ve gone and fallen asleep and now we can’t get to the end and
find out what happens to us…!’ It
was the strangest, most wonderful dream – in which the characters were trying
to wake me up, so I could carry on reading for them.
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