![]() ![]() Matthews experiences actual stardom when news of this phenomenon gets out, but it can’t explain his continuing, nationwide dream celebrity. The NPC in life’s video game has become the ironic cameo star. Through some supernatural, psychopathological epidemic, boring old Professor Matthews has started appearing in everyone’s dreams – but always, to his increasing chagrin, as a hilariously unimportant character in the background of some dramatic or violent dream scenario. His students start paying rapt attention. ![]() Matthews’s problems begin when friends, acquaintances and total strangers start doing double-takes at him, their mouths parted in incredulous half-smiles. Matthews also contains a hint of the unhappy male lecturers from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and JM Coetzee’s Disgrace. But it is Professor Matthews’s terrible destiny to become a cross between Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street and Leonard Zelig, the chameleon nonentity in the Woody Allen comedy who insinuates himself into every historical situation of the 20th century.
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