Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was. - Michael Bishop

His foot always got caught in that wide, loose stirrup: his mouth.

Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention.

Do you expect even dreams to unravel rationally, Kahl Balduin? Must each event have a precise, empirical cause?
"No, not if you're narrating a dream. But if you claim, like the Pledgeson, that your visions and reality are the same thing, then, yes I expect consistency. I'm too old for pointless fairy tales.