Flies Like Thoughts – Innokenty Annensky (1855-1909)
Flies Like Thoughts Flies, like black thoughts, have not quit me all day … – A N Apukhtin I’ve grown weary of sleeplessness, dreams. Locks of hair hang over…
Tag: through a long and sleepless night
Extract from a paper in progress on sleep in J G Ballard’s fiction
“Manhole 69 follows three volunteers, Avery, Lang and Gorrell, who have undertook a procedure which has removed the ability to sleep. The primary investigator, Dr Neill, reflects with scorn on sleep:…
From “Look At the Harlequins!”, Vladimir Nabokov
“At its worst it went like this: An hour or so after falling asleep (generally well after midnight and with the humble assistance of a little Old Mead or Chartreuse)…
“Sleep.” Bravig Imbs
I slowly the ponderous doors of lead imponderous pushed by a wedging force unthinking opened how like a cloud I floated down the dim green air unthinking of the soft…
From “Correction”, Thomas Bernhard (trans. Sarah Wilkins)
What a terrible situation I’ve let myself in for by accepting Hoeller’s invitation and moving into Hoeller’s garret, I thought. I looked down at Hoeller’s workshop windows and I thought,…
From “The Dud Avocado”, by Elaine Dundy. (pages 61-2)
The night before we went into rehearsal, I was determined to get to bed early. When I got into my bath, I was singing. Gradually, deliciously, I could feel myself…
Séamus Sweeney 