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  • It's been brought to my attention, in various words at various times, that the protagonist of the Magnus Somnium is a passive guy.

    Don't Take This Lying Down Ulysses 2010

  • Regardless of your mileage, this caused me to take a look at the Magnus Somnium from a perspective that had never occurred to me before.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Ulysses 2009

  • The Magnus Somnium is still out for review, and I'm a little concerned because I haven't heard back from many beta readers in over a month.

    One Shirt, Two Pairs of Pants... Ulysses 2010

  • The Magnus Somnium is still out for review, and I'm a little concerned because I haven't heard back from many beta readers in over a month.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Ulysses 2010

  • Regardless of your mileage, this caused me to take a look at the Magnus Somnium from a perspective that had never occurred to me before.

    Whiling Away an Idle Moment Ulysses 2009

  • It's been brought to my attention, in various words at various times, that the protagonist of the Magnus Somnium is a passive guy.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Ulysses 2010

  • The Somnium is a dream with nightmare touches, the scale of everything on exaggerated size, the lunar terrain forbidding and the prehistoric creatures monstrous.

    COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

  • To apologise for his neglect, he gave in a short copy of verses, entitled Somnium, containing a common thought; 'that the Muse had come to him in his sleep, and whispered, that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politicks; he should confine himself to humbler themes:' but the versification was truly Virgilian [4].

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • But the king, who loved a joke, demanded something sharp and stinging, and Buchanan obeyed by writing, but not publishing, "The Franciscans," a long satire, compared to which the "Somnium" was bland and merciful.

    Historical Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

  • "Somnium," directed by Miguel Aviles, took the narrative award and Andrew Bui's

    Variety.com 2009

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