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...Sleepless- Night...
...level yea even a quarter inch, the northern tribes sent scouts to the south, chanting as they came, to ask the southern chiefs if relief from famine could be expected. And Io, hardly had the bikes of the emissaries been spotted on the horizon by the eagle-eyed and sleepless watchers, when the hay in the fields began to move and sigh and the Great Hot Wind from the Desert began to blow. Wind which in September would have been a sublime blessing, which would have caused the flowers to produce resin to coat their sacred leaves, the same...
...than that. We are able to tell ourselves that objects are sleeping only because we ourselves are not [sleeping]. Oboes never sleep. Of course, to say that oboes never sleep is not to say that oboes are awake at every moment. Nor is it to say that they are sleepless. Hearing an oboe out of tune, who would be foolish enough to say, "That oboe must be tired...
...path" and "swan-road" for sea. For relaxation he is read to, mostly from favorite writers whom his intellectual admirers disdain: Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows differently for the blind," he admits. "It flows easier. I am not bored when I am alone. Circumstances are easily forgotten. A sleepless night is made up only of time, not thinking. I know two twilights: the twilight of the dove [morning] and the raven [evening]. One is blindness, the other...
Novelist Jacqueline Susann deftly turned the other cheek on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, disappointing the sleepless millions who awaited her delayed reply to Truman Capote's allegation that she looked, among other things, "like a truck driver in drag." As the author of The Love Machine went through her chat with Carson, the subject never came up. Just as she was to leave, her host asked innocently: "What do you think of Truman?" "Truman . . . Truman," she considered gravely. "I think history will prove he was one of the best Presidents...