Le Cirque des Rêves

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

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Why do we wind our watch?

Because everything requires energy. We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

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Widget: I don't think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer.

Alexander: There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

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I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

Friedrick Thiessen

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You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus.

You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

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Stories have changed

There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, and there is no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act?

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it.

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The circus is coming... Enjoy the game that Failbetter created to celebrate the launch of Erin Morgenstern's magical debut novel, The Night Circus.