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Text: The Second Dream

Author: Madelaine Culver

Publisher: Steel Incisors

Plot: The blackness from Under The Skin sublimates out from its Scottish void to investigate the novelette form and something called Asemic writing that looks suspiciously like Arabic.

Subplot: Seduced and abandoned, the First Dream wanders the streets of Nowhere City, getting into fights with homeless people and scribbling Urdu on the subway walls.

Sub-subplot: The Masculine disguises itself as an elderly crone and ventures into the forest with a basket of plastic apples, one of them coated in green shit. But Snow White is not at home that day. She’s in the mines, whistling.

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To start with, The Second Dream is an [ekphratic?] response to the watching of the 2013 film, Under the Skin, which I have yet to see. I’ve tried to find it online but all I got was various pornography and a 90’s thing called Alien Agenda: Under the Skin, which I may try and watch at some point, but not now, cos I’m still trying to find the real Under the Skin.

Dailymotion?

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After more exhaustive searching, I’ve decided to just watch clips on YouTube and a recap by one of those channels that reads the wiki summary of the film out loud like a between-murders sociopath.

I hope it’s enough.

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