I dreamed I was with a few men speaking with a male teenager. We were all sitting around a table. The young man was talking about a book. He said it was called Halo. He was talking about how it’d come out in 1972, and then commenting, “How can anyone remember anything from then?”
I said, “I read the book when it came out.”
He asked, “How much of it do you remember?”
“Not much. I was about sixteen and in high school. I was reading many books then, and doing sports, and taking classes.”
“That’s my point,” the teenager said. “You can’t remember things from then.”
I answered, “I remember reading Catching in the Rye a few years before that, and Catch 22, and The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings, Fahrenheit 451, and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. I don’t remember Halo.”
The kid said, “I’ve never heard of those books, but I did see Foundation on TV. It was okay.”
Dream end.
Michael Seidel, writer 
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