Lit/Pub #IV - The Wake Up Issue - Spring2024
The magazine of Professor Andrea di Robilant literary class at The American University of Rome. "Last year’s issue of Lit/Pub was about the slow return to a post-Covid world. This year, the initial theme was dreams – time to get on with it and think about the future. But the more we discussed what to put in the issue, the more it became apparent that a lingering wariness was still in the air, even a certain complacency. Hence the exhortatory title – The Wake Up Issue – which Isabella Klepikoff has deftly captured in the design of this year’s cover: a wolf resting by a Roman fountain. He looks to be resting, but his lively green eyes tell us he is stirring back to action."
The magazine of Professor Andrea di Robilant literary class at The American University of Rome.
"Last year’s issue of Lit/Pub was about the slow return to a post-Covid world. This year, the initial theme was dreams – time to get on with it and think about the future. But the more we discussed what to put in the issue, the more it became apparent that a lingering wariness was still in the air, even a certain complacency. Hence the exhortatory title – The Wake Up Issue – which Isabella Klepikoff has deftly captured in the design of this year’s cover: a wolf resting by a Roman fountain. He looks to be resting, but his lively green eyes tell us he is stirring back to action."
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Prose<br />
was a kid). I wait for sleep to come and take me to dreamland. But nothing ever happens behind those<br />
closed eyelids. It is like staring at a dark wall, like taking a wrong turn into a dark alley… I’ve made a list<br />
of such similes just waiting to fall asleep.<br />
I suspect dreaming is the reason why people love to sleep so much. Every evening I watch my<br />
roommates eagerly get into their pajamas, with their monogrammed pillows and their dream journals<br />
nearby. I even listen to them as they make up their own dream-scenarios which they hope to take with<br />
them in their sleep.<br />
I have my own perfect script: I tuck myself into bed, the covers fluffy like clouds. I wear a blue<br />
and white striped pajama set with a little night cap, like I’ve seen in picture books. I have my favorite<br />
blend of tea on my nightstand, one that doesn’t burn my tongue, and a good book to read. <strong>The</strong>n I<br />
blow out the candle and fall asleep instantly with a smile on my face. I dream about the ocean, rolling<br />
hills, and sheep farms. I dream about my friends and revisit my fondest memories. I dream about people<br />
I haven’t even met yet.<br />
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