Reading 30: Ch 51 - Sleeping Beauty, Epilogue - Dreamland
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John and Ray face off for the future of sleepers, clients, Jane, and Project Cumulus.
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Reading 29: Ch 50 - Cutting Strings
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John's past confronts him about Project Cumulus, revealing true intentions.
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Reading 28: Ch 48 - Original Thought, Ch 49 - Vision
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Ray pushes forward with the Cumulus Drug; nightmares become a true reality.
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Reading 27: Ch 46 - Family Ties, Ch 47 - Recruitment
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One more mystery is revealed from Jane & Ray's dinner; Jane first visits Sleep Towers.
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Reading 26: Ch 45 - Nightmares
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Everyone experiences their own form of nightmares, past and present, as the love triangle grows closer together.
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Reading 25: Ch 44 - Deja Vu
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John and Jane trial concepts to manipulate Ray into finding the Cumulus Drug.
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Reading 24: Ch 43 - Equality
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Jane teaches her students about Alexis de Tocqueville and equality.
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Reading 23: Ch 41 - Double Deceit, Ch 42 - The One
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John dreams of Jane for Ray to test his refined skills in lucidity.
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Reading 22: Ch 39 - New Client, Ch 40 - Puppet Master
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John transmits a lucid masterpiece to Jane. She reports to the puppet master.
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Reading 21: Ch 37 - Flight, Ch 38 - Persuasion
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John increases in lucidity skills and takes on an apprentice.
info_outlineAs a chemical engineer, I spent a lot of time in school thinking about what are conserved quantities. We have an entire class called "Mass and Energy Balances", where you rely on conservation of mass and energy to solve problems (some may find this very boring, I know). A friend and I used to consider what else in life might be conserved, meaning its quantity is finite. When I got to writing a chapter about a turning point in John's life, I remembered our line of thinking and decided, "What if Luck is a conserved quantity? What if Ray & John are in some cosmic play where only one can succeed? Perhaps if one fails miserably, it will open the door for the other, and vice-versa." And thus was born this chapter. Plus, I loved thinking about how Ray, someone with 23.5 hours a day awake, would handle adversity.