When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and their speech, we are not aware of this being so. Only one of them is myself, the dreamer. In him I act and speak immediately, while I may be awaiting eagerly and anxiously what another one will reply
Is it true,_ she said, __hat England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who married an Englishman wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.___ell_, I answered annoyed, __hat is precisely how your beautiful island seems to me, quite unreal and like a dream.___ut how can rivers and mountains and the sea be unreal?___nd how can millions of people, their houses and their streets be unreal?___ore easily,_ she said, __uch more easily. Yes a big city must be like a dream.
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Is it true,_ she said, __hat England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who married an Englishman wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.___ell_, I answered annoyed, __hat is precisely how your beautiful island seems to me, quite unreal and like a dream.___ut how can rivers and mountains and the sea be unreal?___nd how can millions of people, their houses and their streets be unreal?___ore easily,_ she said, __uch more easily. Yes a big city must be like a dream.
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