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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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CHAPTER
I
Arbuthnot
on
Political
Lying.
Begin
with
"Great
Swingeing
Falsehoods".
The
Opposite
Method
to
be
used
in
telling
Ghost
Stones.
Begin
with
the
more
Familiar
and
Credible.
Sleep.
Dreams.
Ghosts
are
identical
with
Waking
Dreams.
Possibility
of
being
Asleep
when
we
think
we
are
Awake.
Dreams
shared
by
several
People.
Story
of
the
Dog
Fanti.
The
Swithinbank
Dream.
Common
Features
of
Ghosts
and
Dreams.
Mark
Twain's
Story.
Theory
of
Common-sense.
Not
Logical.
Fulfilled
Dreams.
The
Pig
in
the
Palace.
The
Mignonette.
Dreams
of
Reawakened
Memory.
The
Lost
Cheque.
The
Ducks'
Eggs.
The
Lost
Key.
Drama
in
Dreams.
The
Lost
Securities.
The
Portuguese
Gold-piece.
St.
Augustine's
Story.
The
Two
Curmas.
Knowledge
acquired
in
Dreams.
The
Assyrian
Priest.
The
Deja
Vu.
"I
have
been
here
before."
Sir
Walter's
Experience.
Explanations.
The
Knot
in
the
Shutter.
Transition
to
Stranger
Dreams.
Arbuthnot,
in
his
humorous
work
on
Political
Lying,
commends
the
Whigs
for
occasionally
trying
the
people
with
"great
swingeing
falsehoods".
When
these
are
once
got
down
by
the
populace,
anything
may
follow
without
difficulty.
Excellently
as
this
practice
has
worked
in
politics
(compare
the
warming-pan
lie
of
1688),
in
the
telling
of
ghost
stories
a
different
plan
has
its
merits.
Beginning
with
the
common-place
and
familiar,
and
therefore
credible,
with
the
thin
end
of
the
wedge,
in
fact,
a
wise
narrator
will
advance
to
the
rather
unusual,
the
extremely
rare,
the
undeniably
startling,
and
so
arrive
at
statements
which,
without
this
discreet
and
gradual
initiation,
a
hasty
reader
might,
justly
or
unjustly,
dismiss
as
"great
swingeing
falsehoods".
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