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Title: Where do we go when we sleep? | |
<br />Subtitle: A short article on dreamtime. | |
<br />Date: 2019-06-17 | |
<br />Author: Ryan Fleck | |
<br />Tags: [sleep, waking, dreams] | |
<br />Links: [<a href="#">home</a>, <a href="#">catalogue</a>] | |
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"What can I do for you, Mr. Gray?" he said, rubbing his fat freckled | |
hands. "I thought I would do myself the honour of coming round in person. | |
I have just got a beauty of a frame, sir. Picked it up at a sale. Old | |
Florentine. Came from Fonthill, I believe. Admirably suited for a | |
religious subject, Mr. Gray." | |
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"I am so sorry you have given yourself the trouble of coming round, Mr. | |
Hubbard. I shall certainly drop in and look at the frame--though I don't | |
go in much at present for religious art--but to-day I only want a picture | |
carried to the top of the house for me. It is rather heavy, so I thought I | |
would ask you to lend me a couple of your men." | |
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"No trouble at all, Mr. Gray. I am delighted to be of any service to you. | |
Which is the work of art, sir?" | |
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"This," replied Dorian, moving the screen back. "Can you move it, covering | |
and all, just as it is? I don't want it to get scratched going upstairs." | |
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"There will be no difficulty, sir," said the genial frame-maker, | |
beginning, with the aid of his assistant, to unhook the picture from the | |
long brass chains by which it was suspended. "And, now, where shall we | |
carry it to, Mr. Gray?" | |
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"I will show you the way, Mr. Hubbard, if you will kindly follow me. Or | |
perhaps you had better go in front. I am afraid it is right at the top of | |
the house. We will go up by the front staircase, as it is wider." | |
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He held the door open for them, and they passed out into the hall and | |
began the ascent. The elaborate character of the frame had made the | |
picture extremely bulky, and now and then, in spite of the obsequious | |
protests of Mr. Hubbard, who had the true tradesman's spirited dislike of | |
seeing a gentleman doing anything useful, Dorian put his hand to it so as | |
to help them. | |
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"Something of a load to carry, sir," gasped the little man when they | |
reached the top landing. And he wiped his shiny forehead. | |
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"I am afraid it is rather heavy," murmured Dorian as he unlocked the door | |
that opened into the room that was to keep for him the curious secret of | |
his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men. | |
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He had not entered the place for more than four years--not, indeed, since | |
he had used it first as a play-room when he was a child, and then as a | |
study when he grew somewhat older. It was a large, well-proportioned room, | |
which had been specially built by the last Lord Kelso for the use of the | |
little grandson whom, for his strange likeness to his mother, and also for | |
other reasons, he had always hated and desired to keep at a distance. It | |
appeared to Dorian to have but little changed. There was the huge Italian | |
cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt | |
mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy. There the | |
satinwood book-case filled with his dog-eared schoolbooks. On the wall | |
behind it was hanging the same ragged Flemish tapestry where a faded king | |
and queen were playing chess in a garden, while a company of hawkers rode | |
by, carrying hooded birds on their gauntleted wrists. How well he | |
remembered it all! Every moment of his lonely childhood came back to him | |
as he looked round. He recalled the stainless purity of his boyish life, | |
and it seemed horrible to him that it was here the fatal portrait was to | |
be hidden away. How little he had thought, in those dead days, of all that | |
was in store for him! | |
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But there was no other place in the house so secure from prying eyes as | |
this. He had the key, and no one else could enter it. Beneath its purple | |
pall, the face painted on the canvas could grow bestial, sodden, and | |
unclean. What did it matter? No one could see it. He himself would not see | |
it. Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul? He kept his | |
youth--that was enough. And, besides, might not his nature grow finer, | |
after all? There was no reason that the future should be so full of shame. | |
Some love might come across his life, and purify him, and shield him from | |
those sins that seemed to be already stirring in spirit and in | |
flesh--those curious unpictured sins whose very mystery lent them their | |
subtlety and their charm. Perhaps, some day, the cruel look would have | |
passed away from the scarlet sensitive mouth, and he might show to the | |
world Basil Hallward's masterpiece. | |
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No; that was impossible. Hour by hour, and week by week, the thing upon | |
the canvas was growing old. It might escape the hideousness of sin, but | |
the hideousness of age was in store for it. The cheeks would become hollow | |
or flaccid. Yellow crow's feet would creep round the fading eyes and make | |
them horrible. The hair would lose its brightness, the mouth would gape or | |
droop, would be foolish or gross, as the mouths of old men are. There | |
would be the wrinkled throat, the cold, blue-veined hands, the twisted | |
body, that he remembered in the grandfather who had been so stern to him | |
in his boyhood. The picture had to be concealed. There was no help for it. | |
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"Bring it in, Mr. Hubbard, please," he said, wearily, turning round. "I am | |
sorry I kept you so long. I was thinking of something else." | |
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"Always glad to have a rest, Mr. Gray," answered the frame-maker, who was | |
still gasping for breath. "Where shall we put it, sir?" | |
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"Oh, anywhere. Here: this will do. I don't want to have it hung up. Just | |
lean it against the wall. Thanks." | |
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