Author: John Kedrick Bangs / Genre:Sci-Fi The Dreamers is a literary pastiche and travesty, the club that is formed merely an excuse to make good fun
of the literary stylings (and stylers) of Bangs' day. A group of characters are convinced that literary inspiration
comes in dreams. They decide to form a club, meeting once a month to consume a marvelous meal, then
head home to sleep -- and dream. The plan is then to record the dreams, and read the results at the next
meeting.
The beginning amusingly reveals the misconceptions the group labors under: most of the difficulty of writing,
they're sure, is in the mechanical setting down of the words on the page -- a problem they surmount through
the use of a stenographer. Creative writing ? "These things require very little intellectual labor", they believe
-- and if anyone could prove this claim, they could.
