European Dreams Often End in Anticlimax, Author Finds

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Author Wolfram Lotz collected European dreams from online forums, finding a consistent anticlimactic structure where adventures are sidetracked or fizzle out.
He suggests this reflects a prosaic, less imaginative European mentality and a changing relationship with the US.

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Author Wolfram Lotz collected European dreams from online forums, finding a consistent anticlimactic structure where adventures are sidetracked or fizzle out. He suggests this reflects a prosaic, less imaginative European mentality and a changing relationship with the US.

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