From "The Gallifrey Chronicles":
Aug. 10th, 2005 01:35 pmLance Parkin wrote this, on page 130-131 of the book, and it makes me well up every time I read it. So why should I be the only one to suffer so? Here it is.
And the truth is: the Doctor was the finest dream of hundreds of human beings, refined as they tapped away at their typewriters. For generations, they'd made him a hero to countless millions in over a hundred countries. Then, just once, he hadn't come back. His enemies had kept him away. But despite their best efforts he hadn't been forgotten. There were those who remembered him when they walked past a dummy in a shop window or sat on a beach looking out to sea, and every time they ground pepper. And, after far too long, a new generation of children were about to hear that music for the first time, and they would learn their sofa wasn't just for sitting on...