“Tired of just killing time? Do you really enjoy all those games of solitaire, those TV re-runs, reading those finely wrought first novels? Don’t they just make your boredom more intense, make time go by even slower? The solution, my friends, is FastForward, a simple device that turns off your brainwaves, blanks your mind for a time interval you select. The FastForward system normally sells for $149.95, but if you act now we will rush it to you for only $19.95. That’s right, just $19.95, … [Read more...]
“Soothe-Sleep” / Memorable Fancies #216
7 September, 2016 by Leave a Comment
[Neuroscientists find a way to record dreams as the dreamer experienced them.] “Bad dreams? Soothe-Sleep Inc. can end them once and for all. Think of the pleasure of knowing you won’t wake up shivering in terror, or keeping your bedmate awake with groans and thrashing. “Soothe-Sleep is a simple device you wear on your head. It detects abnormally strong negative brain waves and generates positive waves until your brain returns to normal. “What is the price of this wonderful new … [Read more...]
“Planning the Nightmare” / Memorable Fancies #1362
30 October, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“...planning the nightmare...” – Roberto Bolaño] Jeanne planned her nightmares, thought through each coming night’s vision in detail, enough to occupy all her sleep-time, enough to fill the budget of fear so that worse, unplanned, things could not happen to her in her mind’s darkness. <END> Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: Try Try Again – A novel of deadly U.S. political intrigue from Ashton Publishing Group (Australia). … [Read more...]
“Last Night” / Memorable Fancies #624
24 February, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Last night, after thunder and downpour woke me, after I thought to make coffee but fell asleep again instead – Last night I had you with me, just as I had dreamed before: once more my fingers traced the edges of your lips and circumnavigated your narrow breasts again, as I dreamed I would, again. <END> THE MONDAY PITCH If you liked this post, please tell your friends and share a comment here or in StumbleUpon, Reddit, Facebook, or other social websites. COMING … [Read more...]
“Books for Sleeping” / A Memorable Fancy #351
24 May, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In publishing news today, Dorton and Company announced a new venture: books for people who just want to get to sleep. “If a novel is so fascinating, compelling,” said Dorton’s executive editor Page Turner, “that you’re up all night reading and too groggy to perform at work the next day, that’s a problem; and now Dorton has the answer.” Ms Turner said that several books in the new series are being readied for production already, or are under contract. Initial releases will include “How to … [Read more...]
“Bandwidth” / A Memorable Fancy #259
23 February, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“It’s a waste!” the consultant said, “All those brain cycles that could be doing useful work, improving our productivity statistics, participating in cloudsourced computing, and so on. When people are asleep they’re not using their minds, when their government could be using them. What a waste of a national resource.” “And they’d never know they were – improving our productivity statistics and so on? They wouldn’t miss these ‘brain cycles’?” “Not at all. If they wake up or start dreaming, … [Read more...]
“An Economy of Dreams – II” / A Memorable Fancy #216
31 January, 2013 by Leave a Comment
[Neuroscientists find a way to record dreams as the dreamer experienced them.] “Bad dreams? SootheSleep Inc. can end them once and for all. Think of the pleasure of knowing you won’t wake up shivering in terror, or keeping your bedmate awake with your groans and thrashing. “SootheSleep is a simple device you wear on your head. It detects abnormally strong negative brain waves and generates positive waves until your brain returns to normal. “What is the price of this wonderful new … [Read more...]
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