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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
34
Of
Hone's
affair
there
are
two
versions.
Both
may
be
given,
as
they
are
short.
If
they
illustrate
the
deja
vu,
they
also
illustrate
the
fond
discrepancies
of
all
such
narratives.
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THE
KNOT
IN
THE
SHUTTER
"It
is
said
that
a
dream
produced
a
powerful
effect
on
Hone's
mind.
He
dreamt
that
he
was
introduced
into
a
room
where
he
was
an
entire
stranger,
and
saw
himself
seated
at
a
table,
and
on
going
towards
the
window
his
attention
was
somehow
or
other
attracted
to
the
window-
shutter,
and
particularly
to
a
knot
in
the
wood,
which
was
of
singular
appearance;
and
on
waking
the
whole
scene,
and
especially
the
knot
in
the
shutter,
left
a
most
vivid
impression
on
his
mind.
Some
time
afterwards,
on
going,
I
think,
into
the
country,
he
was
at
some
house
shown
into
a
chamber
where
he
had
never
been
before,
and
which
instantly
struck
him
as
being
the
identical
chamber
of
his
dream.
He
turned
directly
to
the
window,
where
the
same
knot
in
the
shutter
caught
his
eye.
This
incident,
to
his
investigating
spirit,
induced
a
train
of
reflection
which
overthrew
his
cherished
theories
of
materialism,
and
resulted
in
conviction
that
there
were
spiritual
agencies
as
susceptible
of
proof
as
any
facts
of
physical
science;
and
this
appears
to
have
been
one
of
the
links
in
that
mysterious
chain
of
events
by
which,
according
to
the
inscrutable
purposes
of
the
Divine
will,
man
is
sometimes
compelled
to
bow
to
an
unseen
and
divine
power,
and
ultimately
to
believe
and
live."
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