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[skygiants]

In a dream I had last night, I was trying to explain Dick Francis novels to someone.

Note: I have never read a Dick Francis novel.

"OK," I said, "look, it's not a series, the protagonists are all different -- they're all mystery novels about horses but the horses play a different role in each book, like, the horses are always plot-relevant but they're not the same ... horses ..."

"That doesn't make any sense," he said, "how can you write twenty different mystery novels that aren't a series and are all about horses?"

So I tried to pull up rachelmanija's Dick Francis tag to demonstrate, but something was wrong with the internet and it kept redirecting us places I didn't want to go, and the end result was that he never did believe me about Dick Francis and it was deeply frustrating.

This is the only dream of mine I've remembered in months.  Apparently my subconscious is very keen to explain that it doesn't believe Dick Francis novels exist. 

Comments

[likeadeuce]

As a young reader, my favorite book was 'anything with a horse on the cover,' which explains why Dick Francis was one of my first forays into 'popular fiction aimed at adults.' It literally didn't occur to me that there was anything weird about the setup until reading this post!

[skygiants]

I don't think it's actually all that weird, in the grand scheme of things, but you have to admit it's a LOT of mysteries about horses.

[likeadeuce]

Occasionally I would pick up one where the horses were REALLY peripheral and 15 year old me would be like 'what is this bullshit? I was promised horses.'

[brownbetty]

Like the one where it's *paintings* of horses, which seems weaksauce to me.

[likeadeuce]

Garbage :(