Last night I dreamt that Disney took over the world and things got worse and worse by slow degrees. People were prohibited from taking in any media from outside the company and even unedited versions of Disney's own past catalogue. There was a woman who somehow smuggled in goods in her big orange Spanish skirt. It may or may not have been due to this that Disney next demanded everyone's clothes. In our large, brightly lit rooms with walls painted with blue skies and clouds, people were ordered to pile their clothes in the middle of the room under constant surveillance. Somehow I kept a DVD copy of The Return of the King: Extended Edition hidden.
I guess I've always had a kind of love/hate relationship with Disney. I'm fascinated by their best work but put off by their aggressive corporate identity. When I came up with Boschen and Nesuko in junior high school over thirty years ago, the tyrannical Zai'Pi Corporation was based on Disney. In one of the novels I wrote but never published, Nesuko even talks about her conflicting feelings about Zai'Pi, how she remembered loving the animation as a child yet it sits oddly beside the devastating impact the company had had on her life. To be sure, she, and I, had worse problems.
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