Literature · Reflection
DANILO KIS ~ ANGEL OF SLEEP
“I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. […] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.”
15 January 2014
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