#nightmare – @nickkahler on Tumblr

He awoke with a shudder and discovered that his bed was soaking from a night sweat and as he sat shivering in the dark, he realized that the end was not many days distant. He gazed down into the crater of death and fell back dizzy on his pillow.

Flannery O’Connor, “The Enduring Chill,” 1958

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In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.

Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947

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Franz Sedlacek, Ghost Over the Trees, 1931 (via abatica)

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Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c. 1797

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Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

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I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu," 1926

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The city as we might imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate in maps and statistics, in monographs on urban sociology, demography, and architecture.

Jonathan Raban in Charles Rutheiser, Imagineering Atlanta, 1996

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Listen, they’re going to take us into the courtyard. Good. They’re going to stand up in front of us. … There’ll be eight. Someone’ll holler ‘aim!’ and I’ll see eight rifles looking at me. I’ll think how I’d like to get inside the wall, I’ll push against it with my back … with every ounce of strength I have, but the wall will stay, like a nightmare.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wall, 1948

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