“He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book Between Planets

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 17, “To Reset the Clock” (p. 173)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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