“Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fictional worlds, and so the cliff-hanger that inevitably, reliably ended the hour held just as much or more importance to us as the newspaper that usually went from doorstep to garbage bin unread, and we speculated about the future lives of the characters that populated decayed mansions or desert isles as if they weren't inventions of other human minds.” StoriesRealityFictionNewsCharactersDexter PalmerModern CultureFandomThe Dream Of Perpetual MotionFanfictionHeadcanon Book:The Dream of Perpetual Motion Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion