“That was the end of our voluntary searchings in the caverns of dream.”

Fiction, Hypnos (1922)
Context: That was the end of our voluntary searchings in the caverns of dream. Awed, shaken, and portentous, my friend who had been beyond the barrier warned me that we must never venture within those realms again.

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