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350 pages, Pocket Book
First published January 1, 1943
The dream is an evening's cosmogony. The dreams begins the world over again every night. Anyone who can detach himself from the worries of the day and give his reverie all the powers of solitude gives back to reverie its cosmogonic function. He can appreciate the truth of O. V. de L. Milosz's statement: "The cosmos, in its entirety, courses physically through us." The cosmic dream, in the half-light of sleep, has a kind of primitive nebula from which forms without number can come forth. If the dreamer should open his eyes, he will see once more in the sky that substance of nocturnal white—even more easily manipulated than a cloud—with which one can shape worlds without end.