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....
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