Wednesday, November 14, 2007

on the lam (eg literature)

..and sometimes voices,
that, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
the clouds, methought, would open, and shew riches
ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd,
I cry'd to dream again.

Shakespeare, The Tempest, III, 2