The Night the Bed Fell is a short story written by American author, James Thurber. The story is a brief account of an event that took place at his house in Columbus, Ohio. It appears as chapter one of My Life and Hard Times.
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“Unbreachable the fort
Of the long-batter’d world uplifts its wall;
And strange and vain the earthly turmoil grows,
And near and real the charm of thy repose,
And night as welcome as a friend would fall.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)
“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
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