In Your Dreams [5 years ago]: Swan song

With a twist

By Moristotle

[Published originally on April 1, 2017.]

I had a fascinating dream this week, perfect for recounting on the first day of a new month.

Goines On: Lost in time

Goines was worried. His friend out in San Francisco hadn’t started an email conversation in several days, nor replied to Goines’ recent email to him. Goines much missed hearing from this friend, who was always lively and often humorous, manifesting a mind reveling in the world’s astonishments.
    His and Goines’ paths shared several prominent venues in their lives: San Francisco itself (where Goines had started with IBM and their two children had been born), Los Gatos (where the friend had a house on a hilly acre), the Ivy League (the friend had graduated from Cornell), Yale (where the friend earned a doctoral degree), Chicago (where the friend grew up and near Northwestern University, where Goines had done one semester of doctoral work), Paris (where the friend had worked and the Goineses liked to visit), Montmartre (where the friend had an apartment the Goineses used), and the pages of the New Yorker magazine and the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers, from one or the other of which the friends frequently swapped articles.