Henri Rousseau The Snake Charmer

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Mary couldn't sleep. Every time she closed her eyes, something made her sway and lurch as if she were at the brink of a precipice, and she snapped awake, tense with fear.
This happened three, four, five times, until she realized that sleep was not going to come; so she got up and dressed quietly, , Mary thought, like the migration of some herd of unimaginable beasts. But animals migrated for a purpose; when you saw herds of reindeer moving across the tundra, or wildebeest crossing the savanna, you knew they were going where the food was, or to places where it was good to mate and bear offspring. Their movement had a meaning. These clouds were moving as the result of pure chance, the effect of utterly random events at the level and stepped out of the house and away from the tree with its tentlike branches under which Will and Lyra were sleeping.The moon was bright and high in the sky. There was a lively wind, and the great landscape was mottled with cloud-shadows, moving