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The Haunted Mind
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In "The Haunted Mind", Hawthorne described an intermediate space between sleeping and waking. The story begins with the character's sudden waking from midnight slumber. The story describes people's mental activities between sleeping and waking.
In "The Haunted Mind", Hawthorne described an intermediate space between sleeping and waking. The story begins with the character's sudden waking from midnight slumber. The story describes people's mental activities between sleeping and waking.
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If you could choose an hour of wakefulness out of the whole night, it would be this. Since your sober bedtime, at eleven, you have had rest enough to take off the pressure of yesterday's fatigue; while before you, till the sun comes from "far Cathay" to brighten your window, there is almost the space of a summer night; one hour to be spent in thought, with the mind's eye half shut, and two in pleasant dreams, and two in that strangest of enjoyments, the forgetfulness alike of joy and woe. The moment of rising belongs to another period of time, and appears so distant, that the plunge out of a warm bed into the frosty air cannot yet be anticipated with dismay. Yest. . . Read More
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Awesome short story exploring the borderlands between sleep and wakefulness.
3.5
Fantastic tale between sleeping, dreaming and getting up. Hawthorne leads you through very different concepts here. Stay in bed forever, never grow old, staying in a mist of wake and dream. What happens when we sleep? What about our fears and hopes? What about the end of everything? A very haunting
An interesting foray into the mind of a madman, though at times a deeply reflective and beautiful. Two stars because you utterly miss Hawthorne's core genius : straight-line story-telling.
First published in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir (1835), this short essay aptly describes the common experience of waking in darkness, in the middle of night, surrounded by fragments of dream and susceptible to melancholy thought. Hawthorne traces the progress of such musings as if they were a fun
I first read this short story when I was in 11th grade for a English class and I completely fell in love. The very day I read it I went out and purchased a copy of it and that copy has gone with me all these years. Tonight I read it to my daughter and for the first time and once again fell in love.