Roland on Causality

A moonlit conversation

I had lain down on the day-bed in my home office with, I seem to recall, a headache, not long after dinner and intending to get up again within the hour.  Instead, it seems, I had fallen fast asleep.  On opening my eyes, I was immediately aware that the night was now well advanced.  The gelid light of the moon—which I knew had been rising late recently—…