Mother, I do want to leave off my lessons now. I have been at my
book all the morning.
You say it is only twelve o'clock. Suppose it isn't any later;
can't you ever think it is afternoon when it is only twelve
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Imagination makes the chronological time subjective and turns day to night and what not.
What difference, truly, between dream and wakefulness? If twelve o'clock can come in the night, why can't the night come when it is twelve o'clock?
A boy tired of study and deprived of fun wishes the night to visit him at noon!
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