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I can't sleep any more. It's too much like death.
— Cosmo Castorini ‧ Moonstruck
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker says sleep has become too much like death to bear. A familiar form of rest is presented as troubling because of that resemblance. The short comparison makes the inability to sleep feel tied to unease about what sleep represents.
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