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 22 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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Artwork is by Robin Traynor, production by Tim Wiles,
and the soundtrack for this week's episode is from Glass Desert by Harlan Williams.
It's available from magnetune.com this week is the first of a very occasional new feature of the podcast where we unearth another author's work from the public domain and give it to the Borders of Sleep treatment.
This story is from a collection called A Dreamer's Tales,
published in 1910 by Lord Dunsany so if you are ready to journey with me,
then I shall begin the Unhappy Body by Lord Dunsany why do you not dance with us and rejoice with us?
They said to a certain body, and then that body made the confession of its trouble.
It said, I'm united with a fierce and violent soul,
and it's altogether tyrannous and will not let me rest.
And he drags me away from the dances of my kin to make me toil at his detestable work,