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Oneiron Earl Thollander He recently compiled and editedWINNER OF THE FINLANDIA PRIZE Seven women meet in a white, undefined space seconds after their deaths. Time, as we understand it, has ceased to exist, and all bodily sensations have disappeared. None of the women can remember what happened to them, where they are, or how they got there. They dont know each other. In turn, they try to remember, to piece together the fragments of their lives, their identities, their lost loves, and to pinpoint the