Word: insomniac
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...Father. Fernand Gerard Doucin is a punctual insomniac who wakes promptly at 5 a.m. and gives his entire life an hour's third degree before lapsing back into troubled sleep. He often wakes in a sweat from a repetitive dream in which he bashes in his father's head with an ax. Like most of his dreams, this is quite out of keeping with Fernand's daytime self. By day he is a timid bank clerk with little hope and no desire for promotion, and equally small fears of being fired. He is dumpy, bald...
Americans are said to be lonely people, and they are loneliest of all in the late watches of the night-when the inebriate becomes sentimental, the salesman paces his hotel room, the insomniac looks through his medicine cabinet. Radio fills the lonely time with all-night music, but television has moved more uncertainly. It has the brash irrelevancies of Steve Allen, the late late movies, the fast-talking pitchman promising a better, lanolin-coated world for $1 down and $1 a week...
...Ernest Hemingway, when he is writing, every day begins in that private world. As early as 5:30 in the morning, before any but some gabby bantams, a few insomniac cats and a cantankerous bird called "The Bitchy Owl" are awake, he goes to work in the big main bedroom of his villa. He writes standing up at the mantelpiece, using pencil for narrative and description, a typewriter for dialogue "in order to keep...
...Insomniac patients, the doctors agreed, cannot be talked or cajoled out of their sleeplessness, but require sympathetic treatment. "What do you do about the patient who complains, 'I haven't slept a wink,' when you know he has slept for hours?" Sir Geoffrey Jefferson was asked...
...Lucien, 5, a sickly, insomniac youngster, was so unstable that he could not be left alone. The son of wealthy parents, he drank nothing but undiluted wine, in accordance with his father's decree: "Water propagates infantile paralysis...