From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…
Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod” – from A Child’s Garden of Verses
A #poem for #WorldSleepDay 💤
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod
“While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream–adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life—one of the day, one of the night…”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Chapter on Dreams” – in THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON vol. XVI, on @gutenberg_org
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177
That Crafty Artifice: Stevenson’s Brownies and the writing process
“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”
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