Historical dream account · English · published source text
The Fall and the Pieces Glued Together
Horace G. Hutchinson
Dreams and Their Meanings (1901) · 1901 edition, chapter IV, printed pp.118–118; PDF pages 130–130; original scan leaves 134–134
Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed woman correspondent
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"You say you have never heard of any one falling who has arrived at the bottom. I have 'arrived' with a crash, have broken up into pieces, and then I — a sort of detached ego — have picked up the pieces and glued them together again ".
Source & context
A published personal recollection sent to, or personally recorded by, Horace G. Hutchinson and printed in his 1901 edition. Recurrent personal accounts are counted once, not once per occurrence. Where Hutchinson interrupts a quotation, his original reporting phrases remain in the excerpt.
Unnamed woman correspondent, reported in Horace G. Hutchinson, Dreams and Their Meanings (London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901), 1901 edition, chapter IV, printed pp.118–118; PDF pages 130–130; original scan leaves 134–134. Primary witness: original 1901 edition at Internet Archive. The compiler, dreamer, and separately credited earlier recorder are distinguished. Editorial title and navigation themes added; no generated narrative or new translation.
The publication year is not the dream date. No exact dream date or present-day person location is inferred. Dates printed in the narrative remain source wording.
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The original English 1901 edition is public domain in the United States by expired publication term; Archive metadata reports NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. No new Archive license or Public Domain Mark grant is asserted. The linked NoC-US statement describes the US-only rights basis; blanket worldwide clearance is not asserted. Hutchinson’s own writing and named or unidentified contributors are distinguished; no contributor is assigned the compiler’s death date. Unnamed original correspondent/friend; no modern contributor identity or permission is invented..
Source locator and text provenance
1901 edition, chapter IV, printed pp.118–118; PDF pages 130–130; original scan leaves 134–134
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Whitespace/linewrap normalization, witnessed end-of-line dehyphenation, and listed scan-verified OCR repairs only. No dream narrative, person, event, translation or stylistic rewrite added.
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Content notes
- Bodily transformation
- Falling
Connections in the Loom
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