Used Book of the Sandman and the Alphabet of Sleep

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While travelling, two naturalists take refuge in an abandoned log cabin and discover Das Alphabet vom Shlaf-- an alphabetical treatise on various facts about sleeping, including topical poems and accompanied by humorous anthropomorphic animal paintings. The naturalists include this book in it's entirety (pages [ix-xxxvi]) as a precursor to the rest of the book which goes on in much detail to explain the science and stories behind how the Sandman works: he travels the world each night on his immortal donkey Suzanne to put all living things to sleep by flicking sleep sand into their eyes-- made from sand from an underground river, collected by aardvarks, sieved carefully, shoveled into sacks, and given a sleeping spell by small choirs of pixie families who sing songs through a stretched-out spider web...

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