Gustav Klimt Danae (detail) painting

Gustav Klimt Danae (detail) paintingSalvador Dali The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory paintingSalvador Dali The Crucifixion painting
This is still the dream,” Ethan suggested.“I told you, I wake up, there’s someone in the room with me,” Hazard reminded him. “I didn’t get a good look at him, his back to me, just a glimpse in the mirror, but I think it was Dunny Whistler. I had to be connected somehow to the contents of the six black boxes and the threat against Manheim.open the closet door. He’s not in there. Where is he—in the damn mirror!”“Sometimes in a dream,” Ethan said, “you wake up, but the waking up is just part of the nightmare, and you’re really still dreaming.”“I search the apartment. Don’t find anybody. Back in the bedroom what I do find are these.”Ethan heard the sweet silvery ringing of small bells.He looked away from the concrete wall.Hazard held up an array of three concentrically strung bells like those that had hung in the ambulance.Their eyes met.Ethan knew that Hazard had instantly read not the nature of his secrets but certainly the fact that he had secrets.The astonishing things that had happened to Ethan in less than [378] thirty hours, and now also to Hazard, plus the inexplicable case of dead Dunny walking and possibly orchestrating the murder of Reynerd: All this