Especially if you could actually work the sleeping beauty legend in there...
I know it was part of the promise he'd made to the German soldier, but I don't think he knew it at the time. I have some vague recollection there was also a sense in which she was already aware, if not quite awake—the war had gotten into her dreams; she knew some of his trench-nightmares—but one of the problems with dreaming nonexistent musicals is that you can't take the liner notes home. I was just glad to find, when I woke up, I hadn't re-dreamt Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love."
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I know it was part of the promise he'd made to the German soldier, but I don't think he knew it at the time. I have some vague recollection there was also a sense in which she was already aware, if not quite awake—the war had gotten into her dreams; she knew some of his trench-nightmares—but one of the problems with dreaming nonexistent musicals is that you can't take the liner notes home. I was just glad to find, when I woke up, I hadn't re-dreamt Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love."
Oh, and: yay sleep!
Seriously!