The Deep
The Deep
“I was completely awake, totally aware of where I was and what had happened, yet sometime during the fade-out of sleep a new thought had come to me with such immediate clarity that I woke up.
And now I couldn’t recall it.
I closed my eyes and tried to bring the dream back. There were no images in the dream; more like a sudden revelation where the facts are laid out and explained. Something like a blackboard where a problem is laid out and long parabolic curves touched related factors.
After a li...ttle while I gave it up and turned on my side to try for a little more sleep. I thought it would never come and just as it seemed as though it did Cat was shaking me awake and the light overhead was an enemy that ought to be smashed.
I said, “Okay, okay, I’m up.”
Cat shoved a folded copy of the paper at me and tapped the two-column spread in the comer. “Roscoe’s laying it on you again. You should of spoken sharp to that boy.”
I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and scanned his “Uptown Speaking.”MoreLess
And now I couldn’t recall it.
I closed my eyes and tried to bring the dream back. There were no images in the dream; more like a sudden revelation where the facts are laid out and explained. Something like a blackboard where a problem is laid out and long parabolic curves touched related factors.
After a li...ttle while I gave it up and turned on my side to try for a little more sleep. I thought it would never come and just as it seemed as though it did Cat was shaking me awake and the light overhead was an enemy that ought to be smashed.
I said, “Okay, okay, I’m up.”
Cat shoved a folded copy of the paper at me and tapped the two-column spread in the comer. “Roscoe’s laying it on you again. You should of spoken sharp to that boy.”
I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and scanned his “Uptown Speaking.”MoreLess
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