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Tonight, we'll read The Door in the Wall, a short story written in 1911 by H.G. Wells.

Considered to be one of his finest short stories, it explores the tension between the rational

and the fanciful experiences in life.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of The Door in the Wall.

And at the time, I thought that so far as he was concerned, it was a true story.

He told it to me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him.

But in the morning, in my own flat, I woke to a different atmosphere, and as I lay in bed,

and recalled the things he had told me, stripped of the glamour of his earnest, slow voice,

denuded of the focused, shaded, table-light, the shadowy atmosphere that wrapped about him

and the pleasant, bright things.

The dessert and glasses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making for them the time of bright little worlds

quite good off from everyday realities.

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