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2026-02-04 morning

after a Moseley based modern found family drama dream, the theme changed to a movie of some possibly good-hearted confidence tricksters, whose intentions you doubt throughout, till the female lead (played by Julianne Moore!) DISAPPEARED 😟 and it looked like the guys (led by Chris Pine and Bruce Willis!) were going to betray *the farmworkers* ... BUT ... the off-screen villain/businessman's blackmail material dropped out of the sky on parachutes along with Julianne who then socked Pine in the mouth.

Bruce grabbed Julianne lovingly and said, "This reminds me of when you were [young and] bad!"

(That ending clarified who the characters were with Julianne *obviously* being Angelina DiGriz which made Bruce "Jim DiGriz"!)

Very impressed by Julianne picking up Chris and carrying him like a log above her head leading the way out of the jungle (aka Cocksmoor Woods) ...

The End

#Dreams #StainlessSteelRat

2026-02-04 morning

after a Moseley based modern found family drama dream, the theme changed to a movie of some possibly good-hearted confidence tricksters, whose intentions you doubt throughout, till the female lead (played by Julianne Moore!) DISAPPEARED 😟 and it looked like the guys (led by Chris Pine and Bruce Willis!) were going to betray *the farmworkers* BUT the off-screen villain/businessman's blackmail material dropped out of the sky on parachutes ...

The novel I'm working on at the moment WILL use adversarial poetry as a plot point in the middle of a (futuristic) bank heist: vaults may be protected by an anti-sphinx as well as conventional locks (you have to tell it a riddle that alludes to a shared secret).

But I suck as lyrics/poetry and now I have to figure out how to riff off The Threepenny Opera in order to convince a bank vault that its contents are all stolen and need to be restored to their rightful owners.

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#HarryHarrison predicted #PeteHegseth !!!

The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You (SSR4)

chap 7

An improbable parade of slithering, hopping and crawling figures slopped up when we appeared through the lock, the Bolivar-robot carrying the carefully constructed alien luggage. One individual in slimy gold braid stepped out of the pack and waved a lot of claws in my direction.
“Welcome, stellar ambassador,” it said. “I am Gar-Baj, First Official of War Council.”
“A pleasure, I’m sure. I am Sleepery Jeem of Geshtunken.”
“Is Sleepery your first name or a title?”
“It means, in the language of my race, He Who Walks on Backs of Peasants With Sharp Claws, and denotes a member of the nobility.”

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Now how did I get out of this? Quickly was the best idea since the citizenry would have spread the alarm by now. Yet when I reached the doorway, I saw that the passersby had drawn close and were trying to see what had happened. When I stepped out, they smiled and shouted happily, and one of them called out loudly.

“A cheer for his lordship! Look what he done to the Frenchies!”

Glad cries rang out as I stood there, dazed. Something was very wrong. Then I realized that one fact had been nagging at me ever since I had my first look at the colleges. The flag, flying proudly from atop the nearest tower. Where were the crossed crosses of England?
This was the tricolor of France.

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(BackToTheFuture part II & part III but Georgian England occupied by the French not future Hill Valley or the Old West)