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VIII A CHAPTER ON DREAMS
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The past is all of one texture—whether feigned1 or suffered—whether acted out in three dimensions, or only witnessed in that small theatre of the brain which we keep brightly lighted all night long, after the jets are down, and darkness and sleep reign2 undisturbed in the remainder of the body. There is no distinction on the face of our experiences; one is vivid indeed, and one dull, and one pleasant, and another agonising to remember; but which of them is what we call true, and which a dream, there is not one hair to prove. The past stands on a precarious3 footing; another straw split in the field of metaphysic, and behold4 us robbed of it. There is scarce a family that can count four generations but lays a claim to some dormant5 title or some castle and estate: a claim not prosecutable6 in any court of law, but flattering to the fancy and a great alleviation7 of idle hours. A man’s claim to his own past is yet less valid8. A paper might turn up (in proper story-book fashion) in the secret drawer of an old ebony secretary, and restore your family to its ancient honours, and reinstate mine in a certain West Indian islet (not far from St. Kitt’s, as beloved tradition hummed in my young ears) which was once ours, and is now unjustly some one else’s, and for that matter (in the state of the sugar trade) is not worth anything to anybody. I do not say that these revolutions are likely; only no man can deny that they are possible; and the past, on the other baud, is, lost for ever: our old days and deeds, our old selves, too, and the very world in which these scenes were acted, all brought down to the same faint residuum as a last night’s dream, to some incontinuous images, and an echo in the chambers
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revoke
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hue
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populous
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conspiracy
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malcontent
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intervals
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| n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 );间隔时间;[数学]区间;(戏剧、电影或音乐会的)幕间休息 | |
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trifling
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vicissitudes
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| n.变迁,世事变化;变迁兴衰( vicissitude的名词复数 );盛衰兴废 | |
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drowsiness
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