Two Real Quick Observations

1. I like the dedication at the end of 'Cities of the Plain' by Cormac McCarthy:

I will be your child to hold
And you be me when I am old
The world grows old
The heathens rage
The story's told
Turn The Page.

2. Dream sequences in book annoy me. I like reading a book front to back, no cheating, no skipping forward. But an annoying dream sequence is like a fly buzzing in my ear, I just want to swat it away. I have started a novel of my own (barely started, not making terrific progress) where I actually make fun of dream sequences in novels. Why would that annoy me so? I don't know. Similarly, I don't like dream sequences in movies either, and those Nightmare on Elm Street films annoy me too. Now, I don't know why dreams annoy me so much...do you know there actually is a phobia of dreams...Oneirophobia. Is that what I have?

I do think that it is sometimes a writer's crutch, and even just a space filler in books. Perhaps the author is trying to add the subconscious to a story the lazy way, but I'm just not interested in the wack vapor within a story, I'm about the story itself. Like when someone tells you  a good story, great...but who wants to hear about a dream someone had...yawn.

Cheers, nca