It was "Perchance to Dream," by David Morrell, about a sleep therapist with a rather problematic new patient, one that struggles with more than just managing to sleep through the night.
This one as quite a challenge. Not for anything technical (although I did have to say "Clonazepam" four or five times), but because I was a bit vague on what it all meant, hence, how to perform it.
So, I did something I've never done before (although maybe I once did asking Aeryn Rudel how to say his name): I contacted the writer to ask his opinion on how to perform it. I recognized David Morrell's name from someplace, and realized that this was the guy who wrote The Name of the Rose and First Blood. So, I guess I was lucky he emailed me back.
Even so, I'd be curious to find out what listeners to the story think it all means, since I came up snake eyes.
Oh, another thing I did on this. There was a college in Georgia mentioned in the story, and rather than looking it up on YouTube, as I often do with town or celebrity names that may be pronounced a number of ways, I just called the school and asked how to say it.
Here's the link. Sleep well!
2 comments:
I'll throw myself on this grenade.
That was a very fine narration of a story beyond my understanding. I feel like I spent the last 10 minutes in a Chuck E Cheese, what happened?
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