Russell’s Sentences

Doing What a Dream Demands

The very idea would strike most people as silly, ludicrous, nonsensical.

I do not take demands from anyone easily.

Well, maybe from my wife, Frankie.

But from a dream?

Actually, I do so quite often.

But not easily.

Not just demands, but suggestions, hints of direction, and other such.

Several plates are laden with dream tasks.

But the dream was clear.

Write in single sentences, no gathering of sentences into paragraphs.

Reminding me of a literature professor who declared that a close reading of any text required rewriting the text as single sentences.

Something akin to not seeing the trees for the forest, in a reversal he was known for.

Don’t be surprised then to see me write something in lonesome sentences.