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Thomas De Quincey

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Dream fugue

A thousand times has he followed thee in the worlds of sleep… through fugues and the persecution of fugues; through dreams, and the dreadful resurrections that are in dreams–only that at the last, with one motion of his victorious arm, he might record and emblazon the endless resurrections of his love!

The vision of sudden death

Even so in dreams, perhaps, under some secret conflict of the midnight sleeper, lighted up to the consciousness at the time, but darkened to the memory as soon as all is finished, each several child of our mysterious race completes for himself the aboriginal fall.