Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly bu… — Arthur Machen

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Arthur MachenAuthor · Welsh · 1863 – 1947

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