"I love her so much. You know, I can't believe I'm seeing this. One two three four five six. I look up from my book and there are six figures standing at the end of the bed looking right at both of us. She's turned over and she's asleep. I say, 'Anne, Anne, look at this.'

"They're menacing-looking. Strange. I don't understand where they even could have come from. They made no sound. They came out of the living room. The door is so dark. Nelson's sleeping under the bed." (Nelson was the family dog.) "'Nelson! Nelson!' Nelson's just sleeping under the bed. I feel like I've just gotten some kind of weight on me. I want to get tip. I'm thinking about my son. I want badly to get up. I'm thinking about my son. I do not know what's going on here. Is it because we're so high? Why did I ever get this apartment?

Why didn't I get an apartment downstairs? I feel like crying. because I can't get tip and the door is so dark. They're just standing there. They don't say anything, they don't even look like they're alive. Five. six. tar babies. Six tar babies standing there. Am I seeing things? 'Anne, Anne!' No one sees this. It must be that I'm seeing thins. I close my eves. I open my eyes.

And it's changed. Now they're around both sides of the bed. about halfway tip. like when you stop looking at them they start moving.

"I've lost my mind. I have lost my mind. This cannot be real. 'Anne.'- Anne!' I shake Anne. I don't stop looking at them but I shake Anne. They're wearing uniforms. This just is incredible. It can't be real. It cannot be true, it just can't be. 'Anne?' Why in the world won't she wake up, she's never been this damned asleep. 'Anne, will you wake up! Anne, Anne! Oh, Christ.' It's like I'm in another world. I can't make her wake up, and every time I glance at her they get a little closer to the front of the bed. This is really a bad nightmare, boy. This is a real foul nightmare, man! Oh, God, I wish I could wake her up!"

"Voice 1 [Basso profundo]: 'You're not trying to wake her up.'

"'I'm not trying to wake her up.' I feel calmer. better.

"Voice 2 [Light]: 'They're all right.'

"'They're all right.'

"Voice 2: 'They have to do that.'

"'They have to do that. Who's that standing out there?' I get the feeling this place is full of people. Someone keeps telling me it's all right, it's all right, all right. 'I know it's all right, but I still want to get up and uh — ah —'