Herman Melville,
Mardi — Volume I/Chapter LXXXVII: Nora-Bamma
(1849)
“ Dreamers, hypochondriacs, somnambulists; who, from the cark and care of outer Mardi fleeing, in the poppy's jaded odors, seek oblivion for the past, and ecstasies to come.Open-eyed, they sleep and dream ”
