“Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
“He fought despairingly to go deeper into the blackness of a sleep, any sleep, even the sleep of death or some form of non-existence, but even with the loss of consciousness he dreamt he was awake, lying on the bed trying desperately to sleep. If he could find some way to prove that time had passed, no matter how short that time, he could tell himself that he had slept and perhaps then, just perhaps, he would feel rested.”
— Hubert Selby Jr., book The Room
The Room (1971)
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