Essay Archive - Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros": True Means Resides in Action not Words
Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros": True Means Resides in Action not Words
I awoke sweating. Breathing heavily, I glanced over at my clock
and read the time. 4:00 AM. I wasn't sure if this was reality or not so I
ran my palm over my scalp. No bump. A sigh of relief came over me.
"Phew," I said, "it was only a dream."
This is a dream I have had often throughout the past couple of
years. Each time, the bump in my dream gets bigger and bigger and each
time I wake up I'm more and more frightened that the dream was real. "I
will not be a rhinoceros," I tell myself over and o....
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