No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality, wrote Shirley Jackson in the first line of her 1959 horror novel The Haunting of Hill House.Even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.Jackson penned this line to introduce her haunted house, where the line between reality and dreams was perpetually blurred, but she was right: Most living animals, at least, absolutely must shut out reality for a period to stay functionaland alive.
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