I'll have you know

摘要

"Tell me about your dreams," Dr. Webbo says, without looking directly at El. Instead, she keeps her gaze focused on the middle distance,because El's vitals and medical records are scrolling across her corneas."Boring. Weird," El says. "A lot of shoe salesmen trying to get me to wear birdcages on my feet. I wake up feeling amazing, though." Dr. Webbo's private office looks just like a secluded meadow full of wildflowers."Hmm. It says here that you're only on the most basic sleep package. Your dreams are keeping you young, but they're not teaching you anything." Dr. Webbo refo-cuses her view, and now she's staring right at El. "You're a hundred years old now-happy birthday, by the way!-so it's more important than ever to keep learning.""What if I don't want my dreams to teach me?" El says. "I still learn theold-fashioned way: by making a series of increasingly disastrous choices."