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  2. Gates of horn and ivory - Wikipedia

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    Stranger, dreams verily are baffling and unclear of meaning, and in no wise do they find fulfillment in all things for men. For two are the gates of shadowy dreams, and one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those dreams that pass through the gate of sawn ivory deceive men, bringing words that find no fulfillment.

  3. Mathematical fiction - Wikipedia

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    The form and the medium of the works are not important. The genre may include poems, short stories, novels or plays; comic books; films, videos, or audios. One of the earliest, and much studied, work of this genre is Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Mathematical ...

  4. Dreams and visions in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    The dream vision or visio is a major literary device in early medieval literature, especially but not only in the genre of visionary literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Amy Amendt-Raduege writes that medieval dream visions, such as those of Geoffrey Chaucer , or those in the Chanson de Roland , the Roman de la Rose , and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...

  5. Dream vision - Wikipedia

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    He is chaperoned in the dream briefly by Scipio the Elder himself. William Langland, Piers Plowman or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is an apocalyptic Middle English allegorical narrative attributed to William Langland, one of the great works of English literature.

  6. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 5 of the miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014), "Mad Love", was inspired by a dream that show creator Patrick McHale had. In the events of the dream, Pat was house hunting and came across a secret library in one of the houses. As he explored further, he realized that he had entered someone else's home.

  7. English literature - Wikipedia

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    English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [ 1 ] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English .

  8. The Number Devil - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics book was then published in English in 1998. [7] The book was a hit across Europe, becoming a best seller in at least Spain, Germany, [8] the Netherlands, [9] and Italy. [10] The Number Devil also had considerable success in Japan. [11] After the success of The Number Devil, Enzensberger wrote a follow-up, called Where Were You ...

  9. A Dream (short story) - Wikipedia

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    A Dream" (German: "Ein Traum") is a short story by Franz Kafka. [1] The narrator describes a dream in which Joseph K. is walking through a cemetery. There are tombstones around him, and the setting is typically misty and dim. Soon he sees someone carving a name on a stone, and as he approaches he notices that it is his own name.