Where an Angel Fearlessly Treads
Ben BrantleyOctober 21, 2005: Other people's dreams are boring, I know. But please, for the sake of my sanity - and possibly yours - let me tell you about this one. I dreamed I went to a Broadway show that was supposed to be madly eccentric and surreal, featuring a giant lemon, transvestite angel and a hero with Tourette's syndrome. But then, in one of those head-spinning shifts of setting that occur only in nightmares, I found myself trapped inside a musical Hallmark card, a pastel blend of the twinkly teddy bear and sentimental sunrise varieties. And suddenly, as the breath was leaving my body, I realized I was drowning, drowning in a singing sea of syrup.
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