Word: somnambulistic
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...could he not have noticed it before? The truth was that Len Wincobank was a genius, about ten times as intelligent, ten times as perceptive, ten times as alive as Austin Jones. Austin Jones, in comparison was a boring somnambulist, a ventriloquist's dummy, mouthing without conviction or information or even any intelligence the obligatory provocative questions...
...Aiken to America or visiting friends clustered in quiet, inexpensive towns in Spain and Mexico. He was by most accounts great, though trying, company. Aiken's wife constantly feared that he would absentmindedly set fire to his mattress or break a leg falling downstairs. "He moved like a somnambulist, his blue blazer spotted and rumpled, a necktie holding up his trousers," she recalled. Another friend remembers Lowry morosely entering a London restaurant with a dead white rabbit in a suitcase. Like Lenny, the moron in Of Mice and Men, Lowry had broken the animal's neck while fondling...
...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...
...many years ago. This man was the real Mr. Arcularis, of whom Aiken says, "there was something pathetically indrawn and remote about him; he talked little to me or to anyone else... and almost from the outset I thought of him as some how having the air of a somnambulist, a sleepwalker." From the suggestion offered by this contact with a real person has grown, during the intervening years, a character who walks among the living in a spiritual sleep, passes through redemption in a dream voyage, and into physical death before the eyes of the audience...
...Cabinet of Dr. Caligari describes a mountebank monk's visit to a small German town. Apparently Dr. Caligari wishes to exhibit his somnambulist at the town's fair. But a series of unexplained murders follows their arrival. At last Dr. Caligari is caught and led off in a strait-jacket. This story, however, is told by a young man in an institution. When the director of the institution walks among his patients after the story, he himself appears to be Dr. Caligari. Recognizing him, the patient screams, "You are Dr. Caligari!" and he too is led off in a strait...