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To earn their release, they must perform a variety of "labors," that through sheer coincidence may remind us of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Wizard of Oz, The Odyssey, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and "Argonautica" by Apollonius of Rhodes.

In Dreamland, they learn two things: they control the dream, and one never knows when a plague of dung beetles will come in handy.

-- Chris Botkin]]>enBooksCopyright Chris Botkinhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1a9e23b2752fb8fb64f3a6846cb283a6.jpghttps://squareup.com/store/christopher-botkin/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:53:58 +0000Chris BotkinChris Botkinbotkin@bright.netBook 4, "The Twelve Labors of the ONEIRONAUTS," is a book of dreams -- or maybe nightmares. An "oneironaut" is a traveler in a lucid dream, and in this installment of the Cousin Chronicles, the Cousins and Pets become oneironauts, trapped in...
To earn their release, they must perform a variety of "labors," that through sheer coincidence may remind us of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Wizard of Oz, The Odyssey, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and "Argonautica" by Apollonius of Rhodes.

In Dreamland, they learn two things: they control the dream, and one never knows when a plague of dung beetles will come in handy.

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(In real life this was Logan, but Lukas asked to be a star athlete in this book, so I gave the story to him.)

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(In real life this was Logan, but Lukas asked to be a star athlete in this book, so I gave the story to him.)

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