Quote#Remembrance
[Perhaps] the potency of fever, of drugs, of alcohol, or of mania may…
Quote byElizabeth Bisland · 1861–1929
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dreams and Their Mysteries..
English (original)
[Perhaps] the potency of fever, of drugs, of alcohol, or of mania may open up deeps of memory, of primordial memory, that are closed to the milder magic of sleep. The subtle poison in the grape may gnaw through the walls of Time and give the memory sight of those terrible days when we wallowed — nameless shapes — in the primaeval slime.
— Elizabeth Bisland
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