Unlit oil lamp on a low dark tray beside a pale moth and small pale blossoms

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Cosmo Castorini

I can't sleep any more. It's too much like death.

— Moonstruck ‧ 1987

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What it means

Our 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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