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Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction. Ianthe and the Logic of the Dream 1 -- 1 Night Writer : Or, the New Morpheus (Night Rider, 1939) 9 -- 2 Unlocking the Gate (At Heaven's Gate, 1943) 37 -- 3 Willie's Wink (All the King's Men, 1946) 60 -- 4 The View from the Attic (The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories, 1947) 82 -- 5 Beaumont's Dream (World Enough and Time, 1950) 107 -- 6 Decomposing Angels (Band of Angels, 1955) 127 -- 7 The Fictive Fetus in the Cave (The Cave, 1959) 146 -- 8 Moses in the Wilderness (Wilderness, 1961) 163 -- 9 Continent in Flood (Flood, 1964) 183 -- 10 Christmas Gift (Meet Me in the Green Glen, 1971) 203 -- 11 Old Buck's Golden Shower : Or, the New Perseus (A Place to Come To, 1977) 222 -- Conclusion. "at the end of ... life's long sorites" 250 -- Notes 261 -- Works Cited 279 -- Index 285