A Long Wait

This long stalling and procrastination about the serial story 'Oneiromancy' has to end! If I had known things would get so busy, I wouldn't have vowed to only do 'regular' posts until the finale was ready, but now it has been weeks! Even 'Advertising' from a couple of days ago was a bit of a cheat on that vow. You need to be told soon about how nice 'The Hot Rock' was as a film, and how weirdly the 'Round Ireland With A Fridge' film was botched. Argh, all this for a story without an ending. Let me think out loud for a moment, if you will.

A teacher (I've forgotten his subject) and a waitress have been tied into an adventure surrounding their combined ability to exist coherently in the Dreamline, which is an aspect of the collective unconscious that allows fragments of memory, knowledge, wisdom, and communication to zip up and down and across humanity, outside of time and mostly of space. There's a malignant entity there, who is after them and first appeared as the 'Tweedy Lady', and our two characters of Helen and Stanley have been coached to a certain proficiency by operatives of a now defunct research project that used to investigate so-called Dreamline incidents and users. Now, having released the Tweedy Lady's prisoner in the other realm, our two main characters need to be in at the finale. How difficult could that be? Yes, there has to be a hotel involved somewhere, and a zebra, and an unusual incident in the basement. It would be nice if there was a mystery that had nothing to do with the story, and a portal through a wardrobe, and an insurance scheme that involves a yogurt fountain.

Endings are difficult, as in general they have to follow fixed rules and patterns, and simplify everything down so that the ultimate end is elegant and graceful, and consists of exactly one thing. The non-traditional ending is to ignore all that and just stop at an opportune moment, such that it's clear that the overall story and world goes on while the part you're telling is now over. That's the interesting kind of ending, the messy kind. Which should it be? Both? Maybe the whole thing should collapse down to our two people running a caper, and then giving up their parts in proceedings to go back to their regular lives? Maybe they shouldn't even get together in the end! Maybe I'm lying and misleading everyone with this speculation? It has begun to coalesce now that the magic word 'caper' has been thrown out there, maybe as a result of 'The Hot Rock'. There's something so fun and unusual about capers in this cynical and gloomy modern world. To be fair, it's hard to not be cynical when you consider the news headlines, but entertainment does exist in order to break the gloom of actual events. Let's be cheerful.

Yes, a caper of some kind, tinged with all the flexibility and surrealness available to a story supposedly based in a shared Dreamline, and influenced by all involved. That could be great! And the zebra could be an ambassador or minstrel! Yes, and no, and yes, and no! Okay, now there's something to write. Yes, it's going to be a long, long finale.

O.