Word: somnambulistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy sleeper coming to the surface? Is he in a dream? The answer seems to be: yes, but half the time Hippolyte is supposed to be awake. Then the question arises why he should sound the same when he is dreaming and when he is awake, moving like a somnambulist about the vaguely identifiable landscape of "the capital." Miss Sontag evidently has powerful convictions about dreams and offers many glum and portentous aphorisms on the subject, such as, "Dreams are the onanism of the spirit." But the one thing everyone knows about dreams is that they are quite different from...