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.
(from "The Haunted Mind" by William Faulkner)

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