Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep; 'Tis that it resembles death.”
- Don Quixote
“I have to practice staying alive and preparing to die at the same time.”
- Christopher Hitchens
“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
- Theodor Adorno
CW: substance abuse
Sleep Story
by John Merino
Insomnia runs in my family, afflicting both sides of it with equal intensity. That’s nearly four centuries of Mexican tossing and Italian turning, with fits of German cursing and crying in between. A long heritage of discomfort, and, according to family gossip,
