DIS Magazine: Wear 2 Bed / Paul Sepuya / Herodotus

▶ MASTERS AT WORK [FEAT. INDIA]: I CAN'T GET NO SLEEP

"The dreams, that wander to and fro among mankind, I will tell thee of what nature they are,--I who have seen so many more years than thou. Whatever a man has been thinking of during the day, is wont to hover round him in the visions of his dreams at night. Now we during these many days past have had our hands full of this enterprise. If however the matter be not as I suppose, but God has indeed some part therein, thou hast in brief declared the whole that can be said concerning it--let it e'en appear to me as it has to thee, and lay on me the same injunctions. But it ought not to appear to me any the more if I put on thy clothes than if I wear my own, nor if I go to sleep in they bed than if I do so in mine--supposing, I mean, that it is about to appear at all. for this thing, be it what it may, that visits thee in thy sleep, surely is not so far gone in folly as to see me, and because I am dressed in thy clothes, straightway to mistake me for thee. Now however our business is to see if it will regard me as of small account, and not vouchsafe to appear to me, whether I wear mine own clothes or thine, while it keeps on haunting thee continually. If it does so, and appears often, I should myself say that it was from God. For the rest, if thy mind is fixed, and it is not possible to turn thee from thy design, but I must needs go and sleep in thy bed, well and good, let it be even so; and when I have done as thou wishest, then let the dream appear to me."

ALL IMAGES VIA DIS MAGAZINE, AS TAKEN BY PAUL SEPUYA FOR "WEAR 2 BED"; TEXT TAKEN FROM "HISTORY OF HERODOTUS: NEW ENGLISH VERSION, VOL. 3"