Stephen Dobyns - They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

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Dobyns, Stephen. The Church of Dead Girls. Metropolitan Books, 1997, p. 29.

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