From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod” – from A Child’s Garden of Verses
Image: illustration by Charles Robinson (1870–1937) to “The Land of Nod”
Today, 25 September, is #WorldDreamDay
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“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”
—Kevan Manwaring, “That Crafty Artifice: Stevenson’s Brownies and the Writing Process”
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In ‘A Chapter on Dream’ Robert Louis Stevenson describes a creative process informed by dreams and possibly by other, more mysterious forces. If we are to accept Stevenson’s self-reflexive examination of methodology as sincere and not as some ironical stance or whimsical apologia, which, as Henry James notes in ‘The Art of Fiction’ was all-too-common […]
“While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…”
—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams” on @gutenberg_org
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Assoc for Scottish Literature