Sunday, January 24, 2010

Sleep

Subject:  Famous Sleeper
Quote:  “Ah, yes, indeed!  She must be a famous sleeper, that one!”
Character:  M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story: 7—Poirot Pays His Debts
Book Title/Copyright:  The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920


Subject:  Getting to Sleep
Quote:  And now, sleep!… Long ago she had taught herself the essential rhythm that could bring oblivion at call.
            You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on the, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration—just letting them drift gently past-- 
Character:  Omniscient narrator
Chapter/Story:  2
Book Title/Copyright:  Murder After Hours (The Hollow), 1946