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Platonic love

Dreamland

by Mark Twain,

I once awoke from a dream while crossing Bond Street in New York with a friend, and it was snowing hard. We had been talking, and there had been no…

The joyless club

Translated by Daniel Mattingly,

My Platonic Sweetheart

by Mark Twain,

Note.—Mark Twain was always interested in those psychic phenomena which we call dreams. His own sleep fancies were likely to be vivid, and it was his habit to recall them…

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