Angry Robot

Dream Review #4

I’m planning a long hike to the airport. The expedition starts on a large hill, where a sports broadcaster lives (like a troll and his bridge), and he walks up to me and questions my preparedness. He hands me a pair of snowpants and $5 for a cab, guiding me towards a tangle of superhighways at the foot of the mountain. When I walk down there, they are no longer highways but small canals. I have to cross a cartoonish bridge, and the path leads me into the sewers. Suddenly it seems I have a companion – or has she been there all along? Then we are beset by sewer insects. The most savage of them looks like a tiny cheeseburger with stick-man arms that hold cleavers. It charges toward me, spinning like a top, and will surely cut me. I manage to step on it and I crack it like an egg, it oozes white goo. This turns my stomach.

Review: the continuity problems are legion. Who’s the mystery companion? What happened to the highways? The overall heroic-quest motif is nice, but given reasons seem mundane. However, the monster-in-the-cave-who-must-be-overcome, while awash in bathos, is at least original. Overall moral: Sankey is conflicted about cutting down on the cheeseburgers.