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Current Talk '02 I / Re: Dream curse question
« on: June 05, 2002, 07:02:56 PM »Quote
According to the DS Almanac's list of literary sources for DS, the inspiration for the Dream Curse is a 1968 story called "The Dream Deceivers." I've never read it, I've never heard of it, and since the author is unknown I'm afraid I can't tell you much more. Maybe somebody else (one of our librarians, perhaps) will be able to provide more information.
Okay, I had to take up that challenge. I have searched every source that we have at LAPL (short story index back to 1949, in house extensive short story index, card catalog, even the Internet) and can find no short story with that title. I did find a 1985 documentary film by that title but nothing else. Also, if the story was written in 1968, it had to be very new when the dream curse aired on DS. Didn't the writers of DS mostly take from stuff that would have been in public domain? Much as I admire KLS, I do have to say that she has been known to get her facts wrong so maybe this information is not entirely correct? Luciaphil, you're good at this, maybe you can find a short story called "Dream Deceivers."
Bette