Michael Cooke

Michael Cooke Quotes

A Conversation About a Specific Location

Dan: I just wanted to come here.

Herb: To Winkie's?

Dan: This Winkie's.

Herb: Okay, why this Winkie's?

Dan: It's kind of embarrassing.

Herb: Go ahead.

Dan: I had a dream about this place.

Herb: [slightly incredulous] Oh, boy.

Dan: See what I mean?

Herb: Okay, so you had a dream about this place. Tell me.

Dan: Well, it's the second one I've had, but they're both the same. They start out that I'm in here, but it's not day or night. It's kind of half-night, you know? But it looks just like this. Except for the light. And I'm scared, like, I can't tell you. Of all people, you're standing right over there. By that counter. You're in both dreams, and you're scared. I get even more frightened when I see how afraid you are, and...then I realize what it is. There's a man, in back of this place. He's the one who's doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face... I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream. That's it.

Herb: So you came to see if he's out there.

Dan: To get rid of this god-awful feeling.

Herb: Right, then.