Posthuman Blues

Recurring dream: I'm reading a novel and find myself utterly unable to tell what's going on. All aspects of plot and character elude me. I start rereading, only to promptly forget what I've just read. So I start again, sometimes making it a little farther before the storyline collapses into incomprehensibility.

In a recent variation, I managed to get half-way trough a particularly grueling spy thriller and was interrupted by a medic in red scrubs who was busy preparing a syringe for lethal injection.

I didn't care too much about dying, but I genuinely lamented not finishing the book.