VV (3) - Stencil's Awakening
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 5 02:11:31 CST 2000
The War shook Stencil out of his drifting sleep-walk. Reluctantly so. "He
didn't particularly care to wake; but realized that if he didn't he would
soon be sleeping alone. (54)" [Side: This is surprisingly close to my
deliberations before proposing marriage to the Mrs.]
Re-evaluation is what War forces. Stencil will be sleeping alone
eventually. For now, during the War, he's doing what's expected of an
upstanding Son of a Spy: He's joining the Foreign Office. War seems to
have become him.
After the War he "flirted w/ the idea of resuming that prewar sleepwalk."
The he saw the sentence about V. V saved Stencil from near-death, sleep.
But sleep is not "inanimate." Sleep can be exhausting. Dream a little
dream for me.
"INANIMATE"
Main Entry: in·an·i·mate
Pronunciation: (")i-'na-n&-m&t
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin inanimatus, from Latin in- +
animatus, past participle of animare to animate
Date: 15th century
1 : not animate: a : not endowed with life or spirit b : lacking
consciousness or power of motion
2 : not animated or lively : DULL
- in·an·i·mate·ly adverb
- in·an·i·mate·ness noun
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