Beware the Dog : Roald Dahl [9 of 32]

• He got into the habit of going to sleep during the white periods, and of waking up just in time to see the world when it was black.
• But the black was very quick. Sometimes it was only a flash, like someone switching off the light, and switching it on again at once,
• and so whenever it was white, he dozed off. One day, when it was white, he put out a hand and he touched something.
• He took it between his fingers and crumpled it. For a time he lay there, idly letting the tips of his fingers play with the thing
• which they had touched. Then slowly he opened his eyes, looked down at his hand, and saw that he was holding something which was white.
• It was the edge of a sheet. He knew it was a sheet because he could see the texture of the material and the stitchings on the hem.
• He screwed up his eyes, and opened them again quickly. This time he saw the room. He saw the bed in which he was lying;
• he saw the grey walls and the door and the green curtains over the window. There were some roses on the table by his bed.
• Then he saw the basin on the table near the roses. It was a white enamel basin, and beside it there was a small medicine glass.