01-25-2022, 01:18 PM
I have my idea for a story out of The Twilight Zone. If it sounds like a well-known series, such is the pattern. A very lonely person goes into a thrift store and out of curiosity looks in the LP bin full of records once played often and loved whose owners passed away some time ago. The loved ones of their old owner were delighted to give those records, often hokey and sentimental, away. Needless to say, those records can't even be given away to new owners who appreciate them.
The main character finds a record by Perry Como, buys it, and takes it home. He starts to play it (gender is immaterial), and back come the spirits of now-deceased people who used to enjoy this music -- old relatives and neighbors. It's one big, happy reunion.
Unite with something cast off as old-hat, and you might meet those who used to love it -- in the Twilight Zone.
The main character finds a record by Perry Como, buys it, and takes it home. He starts to play it (gender is immaterial), and back come the spirits of now-deceased people who used to enjoy this music -- old relatives and neighbors. It's one big, happy reunion.
Unite with something cast off as old-hat, and you might meet those who used to love it -- in the Twilight Zone.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.