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I WILL tell you, now of a strange dream which I dreamed, and of the stranger things to which I awakened. Since, out of a blank-a void-this vision burst in upon my mind, I cannot do better than relate it, without preamble. It was thus:

I dreamed that I lay writhing on the floor in agony indescribable. My veins were filled with liquid fire, and bu