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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Archive 2010-03-01 Ulysses 2010
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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
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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
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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
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"Somnium," directed by Miguel Aviles, took the narrative award and Andrew Bui's
Variety.com 2009
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