Pygmalion’s Spectacles

“But what is reality?” asks a bearded stranger in Central Park, while Dan Burke, escaping a party with a mild hangover, is in no mood for philosophy. Then the stranger claims he can make a dream real.

In a city of towering buildings and glowing windows, Dan is ready to leave New York behind when Professor Albert Ludwig offers him a test of an astonishing invention: spectacles that draw all the senses into a story. A strange forest appears around Dan, vivid enough to make the hotel room vanish from his mind. There he meets Galatea, who says she has come to find him—and that he will stay with her people only until the second noon. If the world feels real, what could prove it is only a dream?

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