Second Ending
“There were the sounds of children playing — two, or maybe three — and a woman singing over a hammering noise which was coming from the back of the house. But no matter how fast he ran, the house with its unbelievably green trees moved away from him and he was running into an eternal black snowstorm. Or he was swimming frantically through an oily black ocean toward a shoreline of low, grassy-topped dunes which were not quite tall enough to hide the roofs of houses inland, only to see these symbo...ls of life, both plant and human, swallowed up in the dirty, acrid-smelling fog.
There were many variations but the theme remained the same: frantic urgency, hurry hurry hurry or you won't make it. Ross knew that there had to be a good reason for that driving urgency — something in the present situation must be fairly screaming at his subconscious that there wasn't much time left — but try as he would he could not bring that reason up to the surface levels of his mind.
Not all the dreams were unpleasant, however; those in which Alice figured were quite the reverse.MoreLess
There were many variations but the theme remained the same: frantic urgency, hurry hurry hurry or you won't make it. Ross knew that there had to be a good reason for that driving urgency — something in the present situation must be fairly screaming at his subconscious that there wasn't much time left — but try as he would he could not bring that reason up to the surface levels of his mind.
Not all the dreams were unpleasant, however; those in which Alice figured were quite the reverse.MoreLess
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