A truly terrifying thought

[highlyeccentric]

... a dream (or nightmare?) in which an academic treatise comes to life, the terms of its discussion assuming physical form in the strange logic of the dream.
-Kathryn L. Lynch, "The Book of the Duchess as a philosophical vision: the argument of form", Genre 21, 279-305 (292)

right. I'm not going to sleep tonight for fear of being chased through my dreams by reality and fiction in the Chaucerian dream-vision.

ed: and, thanks to this entry, goblinpaladin won't be sleeping for fear of Helmold of Bosau.