The Haunted Mind

"The Haunted Mind" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, 1835. It was later included in Volume Two of Twice-Told Tales,[1] a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837.

Plot summary

In "The Haunted Mind", Hawthorne described an intermediate space between sleeping and waking.[2] The story begins with the character's sudden waking from midnight slumber 1.

Quotes

"In the depth of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide." "She was your fondest Hope, but a delusive one."

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gollark: It's not like you can check, except by checking.
gollark: My thing provides different names for each.
gollark: They do in `ps ax` but not `ps -A` or `top`.
gollark: ```pythondef set_first_argv(name): libc = ctypes.CDLL(None) getenv = libc.getenv getenv.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p] getenv.restype = ctypes.c_void_p envloc = libc.getenv(b"USER") scan = b"python3" ssize = len(scan) buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(ssize) for i in range(0, -2048, -1): ctypes.memmove(buf, envloc + i, ssize) res = b"".join(buf[j] for j in range(ssize)) if res == scan: argv0 = envloc + i break else: return del buf name += b"\x00" * 128 buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(name)) buf.value = name ctypes.memmove(argv0, buf, len(name))```↑ GAZE upon it

References
  1. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The haunted mind" (PDF). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  2. ST. ARMAND, BARTON LEVI (1971). "Hawthorne's "Haunted Mind": A Subterranean Drama of the Self". Criticism. 13 (1): 1–25. ISSN 0011-1589. JSTOR 23098979.
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