But in 2009 Preisser and McElroen left the company they'd dreamed into a beautiful reality, and the stage went dark.
Unlike the Lamberts, whose debt to his own family Franzen acknowledges, the Berglunds of Freedom were, he told Time, "dreamed into existence... totally from scratch".
Interspersed among these vignettes are the spirit's commentary upon them, and, at the story's close, the acknowledgment that "I'm only some kind of answer -- invented, dreamed into being?
One night, one of the New Inquiry editors and I gave an impromptu reading of a poem by Suzanne Somers — that Suzanne Somers — from a collection called "Touch Me," a slim volume I was half-convinced Michael had somehow dreamed into existence.
That he was like her child, or godlike, or simply the lover of whom she, too, had dreamed, whom she had dreamed into being as eagerly as he had dreamed her? Might that little word, that tu, turn out to be the most arousing word in the language?
One night, one of the New Inquiry editors and I gave an impromptu reading of a poem by Suzanne Somers that Suzanne Somers from a collection called "Touch Me," a slim volume I was half-convinced Michael had somehow dreamed into existence.
