Hilary Mantel has a recurring anxiety dream that takes place in a library. She finds a book with some scrap of historical information she's been seeking, but when she tries to read it, the words disintegrate before her eyes.
"And then when you wake up," she said, "you've got the rhythm of a sentence in your head, but you don't know what the sentence was."
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Here's a new twist on the extreme research story. The nightmare involves finding the exact information needed and then not being able to read or remember it. It's the joy of research inverted,
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