fever-dream

Updated: June 3, 2025

And walking to and fro, to and fro, to measure the destinies of arms, he often stopped, with his thoughtful eyes upon the carpet, to ask if his life were real and if he were the arbiter of so tremendous issues, or whether it was not all a fever-dream, snatched from his sofa in the routine office of the Prairie state.

George Alfred Townsend - The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth