Word: dreamland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passes from hour to hour, vignette to vignette, and character to character, but also beckons the Captain back to a dreamland inhabited by Rosie Probert, the love of his younger years. For Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard (Joanne Ray), the past lives on in the ghosts of her two late husbands, who are forced to share the hellish hygiene of their window's house and her emasculating bed. Polly Garter (Debi Neipris), the generous town whore and loving mother of countless bastards, mourns a deal lover in songs of piercing beauty, while ironically scrubbing the floor of the Welfare Hall...
...earth scientist's dreamland, Afar sits at the meeting place of three such giant rift systems. Two of these cleave the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and geophysicists think that both bodies of water are gradually being widened into oceans at the rate of perhaps an inch or so a year as the lava pours out of the rifts...