Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons
1850
A tender, elegiac work from 1850 that treats memory itself as a form of dreaming. The narrator Isaac, speaking with his Aunt Tabithy, argues that life's scattered moments matter not for what happened but for what they felt - a radical proposition for its time. We follow him through childhood's garret explorations during storms, through the first stirrings of love toward his sister Nelly and the mysterious Madge, each season marking another threshold of growing up. Mitchell's book endures because it takes dreams seriously, insisting that the imagination is not frivolous but essential to understanding a life. It is for readers who cherish the bittersweet knowledge that the self we become is built from the dreaming child we once were.
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“Death, distance, and time, shall each one of them dig graves for your affections; but this you do not know, nor can know, until the story of your life is ended.””
— Donald Grant Mitchell
“To struggle with the world, - that is a proud thing; to struggle alone, - there lies the doubt!””
— Donald Grant Mitchell
“It is a common thing, you will find, with our world, to decline familiarity with those ideas that frighten us.””
— Donald Grant Mitchell
“You do not yet know either that ignorance and fear will be thrusting their untruth and false show into the very essentials of Religion.””
— Donald Grant Mitchell
“Life after all is but a bundle of hints, each suggesting actual and positive development, but rarely reaching it.””
— Donald Grant Mitchell
“There are griefs too scared to be babbled to the world; and there may be loves, which one would forbear to whisper even to a friend.””
— Donald Grant Mitchell
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