Sleeping Beauty Page #3

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A marsupial mouse.

Thought to be extinct

until recently.

Its main predators include

owls and bats.

Little is known about the animal

due to its rarity.

First they eat insects but

will also eat meat on occasion.

Sharp, carnivore's teeth.

Scared, Sandhill Dunnart will make

a loud noise...

...as it moves into an

offensive position.

What it really is...

...the Sandhill Dunnart...

is a miniature, a more

tenacious kangaroo.

Hi, Thomas.

No time, no hear.

I'd be happy to do what I can,

try me.

Sorry?

For how long?

That's it?

How much?

OK yes.

Yeah, I understand.

OK. Bye.

-Hey.

-Good afternoon.

Come in.

Come through.

Welcome to my home.

I hope the trip wasn't too grueling.

-No, it was fine. Thank you.

-Wonderful.

Perhaps you'd like a shower

to refresh you after your long drive.

There's a bathroom at the end

of the corridor on the right.

You'll find a robe behind the door.

Oh, and try not to let your

hair get wet.

Sure.

I'm ready.

-Are you feeling well?

-Pardon?

Are you in good health?

Yeah, I'm fine.

You're going to sleep

and wake up.

It'd be as if these hours

never existed.

You won't even dream.

For an hour or two after you wake

you'll feel, yes, slightly...

...groggy, but then fine.

Perfectly fine.

Not nearly as bad as a hangover.

Such a sleep works wonders.

You'll feel...

...profoundly restored.

Thank you, Clara.

A few months ago,

a strange thing happened.

I was idling through my bookshelves,

when I noticed a book...

...my brother's once given me

for my birthday.

A collection of short stories.

Well, I started to reread

one of those stories.

It was about a man who one morning

wakes up and cannot...

bring himself to get out of bed.

He shuts his eyes is self defense.

He reexamines his life.

He's seized with a restlessness.

He packs his bags, cuts all ties,

he can no longer live among the people he knows.

They paralyze him.

He's monied, he goes to Rome.

He wants to burrow under the earth

like a bulb, like a root.

But even in Rome he cannot escape

people from his former life.

So, he decides to return to the city

where he was born and educated...

but which he can't quite

bring himself to call home.

Well, the move doesn't help.

He feels he has no more right

to return than a dead man.

What can he do? He desires an extreme

solution to his conundrum.

He aches for nothing less than

a new world, a new language.

Nothing changes.

Out of indifference, and because he

can't think of anything better to do...

...he decides once more to

leave his hometown, to do some hitching.

A man picks him up, they ride off into the night

when BANG, the car smacks into a wall.

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