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somnambulism a condition that is characterized by walking while asleep or in a hypnotic trance somnambulism [säm′näm·byə‚liz·əm] (physiology) Sleepwalking. The performance of any fairly complex act while in a sleeplike state or trance. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The big premiere, Catherine Diverres's fruits, was the usual mish mash of rehearsal workshop material and unreconciled staging ideas: fire, flowers, buckets of water, a chicken, women walking like somnambulists with their arms outstretched, sudden convulsions, long pauses, much falling to the floor. Walker imagines a large and meaningful life for Meridian Hill, a life beyond the sexual needs of men and the provincialism of town life which Toomer, in spite of what Walker terms his "feminine sensibility," did not and could not imagine for the women who move like somnambulists through the pages of his luminous book. |
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