Somewhere between waking and sleeping on our journey towards the unfathomable deep,
there comes a thin moment where we have one foot in the waking world and the other is in that other world where we relinquish conscious control.
Pausing here and straddled between two planets that drive one another like gears,
the attentive traveler will notice a narrow door only wide enough to sidle through.
This is the border of sleep, where imagination and reality are braided together,
a chasm in the crust of consciousness,
venting the hot pumice of imagery into the irresistible magma of narrative.
Welcome to episode 29 of Stories from the Borders of Sleep,
a weekly podcast of curious tales from bordersofsleep.com featuring original stories by your host,
Seymour Jacklin.
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which is always a pleasure for us to read.
Artwork is by Robin Traynor, production by Tim Wiles,
and the soundtrack for this week's episode is from the album sun by Dayan Ilyich,
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So if you are ready to journey with me,
then I shall begin Returning Student by Seymour Jacklin in the summer months,
the students at the university would go home to help their families on the land during the busiest part of the year,
or they would try to find employment in the area of the latter.
Some were well connected enough to find a use for their wits in tutoring others would have to hire themselves for any sort of rough work.