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 Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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"Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world."
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
A great literary giant who had a literary explanation for dreams as there was the great Sigmund Freud with his own views. If only both were fated to explore this mystery together...
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C. Dickens: Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. Teacher 77: A great literary giant who had a literary explanation for dreams as there was the great Sigmund Freud with his own views. If only both were fated to explore this mystery together... The problem is that for serious people dreams are less useful than other realities. After all, they reveal less than a reasoned poem, regardless of Freud's wild fishing expeditions in human minds.
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My dreams are borne by my endurance and good memory, they do not melt away, and never evaporate. Lasting long, they fetch me my reverie, not illusion.
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The preface to night angelic dreams is used to highlight the "grim care and stern reality" of England in his time of industrial revolution. Dickens might have summarized Hard Times and Oliver Twist in this one quote. Long Bollywood 3-4 hour movies are a modern escape for the mass of the poor in India who seek relief in the world of make-believe. The quote is not an attempt to explain dreams.
England came out of the grimness in the modern times. Will mass India ever get out of it? Or will they forever dream?
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...Which are a lot better than those dirty cockatrices, I must say.
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...Which are a lot better than those dirty cockatrices, I must say. OK, I give up, what does that sentence mean. Why can't people be upfront? What will happen if they do? Nothing! No way? ( anyone should be able to be honest when not using his own name. Yes? No?
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Carmelo wrote:...Which are a lot better than those dirty cockatrices, I must say.
OK, I give up, what does that sentence mean. Nothing at your expense. Humour. Good night. :)
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"Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world."
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
How can the grim care and stern reality of the world in the day result into bright creatures of poem and legend in the night?
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Much of Charles Dickens' work deals with the drudgery of life in the 19th century, so I can appreciate why he'd exalt dreaming.
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