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My thanks to Geneviève and Jean who gave me such a warm welcome at their inn

‘Two gates of Sleep there are, whereof the one, they say, is horn and offers a ready exit to true shades, the other shining with the sheen of polished ivory, but delusive dreams issue upward through it from the world below.’

Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VI, translated by H. R. Fairclough

‘Never have I been able to pass without a shudder through those gates of ivory or horn which divide us from the invisible world.’

Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia, Part I, chapter 1

‘It may appear extraordinary but sleep is not only the most powerful state but also the most lucid one for thought.’

Charles Nodier, Some Phenomena of Sleep, 1831