{"product_id":"2940013516625","title":"THE DAWN OF A TO-MORROW","description":"I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are always two ways of looking at a thing, frequently there are\u003cbr\u003esix or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quite enough.\u003cbr\u003eWhen it is thick and yellow in the streets and stings a man's throat and\u003cbr\u003elungs as he breathes it, an awakening in the early morning is either an\u003cbr\u003eunearthly and grewsome, or a mysteriously enclosing, secluding, and\u003cbr\u003ecomfortable thing.  If one awakens in a healthy body, and with a clear\u003cbr\u003ebrain rested by normal sleep and retaining memories of a normally\u003cbr\u003eagreeable yesterday, one may lie watching the housemaid building the\u003cbr\u003efire; and after she has swept the hearth and put things in order, lie\u003cbr\u003ewatching the flames of the blazing and crackling wood catch the coals\u003cbr\u003eand set them blazing also, and dancing merrily and filling corners with\u003cbr\u003ea glow; and in so lying and realizing that leaping light and warmth and\u003cbr\u003ea soft bed are good things, one may turn over on one's back, stretching\u003cbr\u003earms and legs luxuriously, drawing deep breaths and smiling at a\u003cbr\u003eknowledge of the fog outside which makes half-past eight o'clock on a\u003cbr\u003eDecember morning as dark as twelve o'clock on a December night.  Under\u003cbr\u003esuch conditions the soft, thick, yellow gloom has its picturesque and\u003cbr\u003eeven humorous aspect. One feels enclosed by it at once fantastically\u003cbr\u003eand cosily, and is inclined to revel in imaginings of the picture\u003cbr\u003eoutside, its Rembrandt lights and orange yellows, the halos about the\u003cbr\u003estreet-lamps, the illumination of shop-windows, the flare of torches\u003cbr\u003estuck up over coster barrows and coffee-stands, the shadows on the faces\u003cbr\u003eof the men and women selling and buying beside them.  Refreshed by sleep\u003cbr\u003eand comfort and surrounded by light, warmth, and good cheer, it is easy\u003cbr\u003eto face the day, to confront going out into the fog and feeling a sort\u003cbr\u003eof pleasure in its mysteries.  This is one way of looking at it, but\u003cbr\u003eonly one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other way is marked by enormous differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man--he had given his name to the people of the house as Antony Dart--\u003cbr\u003eawakened in a third-story bedroom in a lodging-house in a poor street in\u003cbr\u003eLondon, and as his consciousness returned to him, its slow and reluctant\u003cbr\u003emovings confronted the second point of view--marked by enormous\u003cbr\u003edifferences.  He had not slept two consecutive hours through the night,\u003cbr\u003eand when he had slept he had been tormented by dreary dreams, which were\u003cbr\u003emore full of misery because of their elusive vagueness, which kept his\u003cbr\u003etortured brain on a wearying strain of effort to reach some definite\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding of them.  Yet when he awakened the consciousness of being\u003cbr\u003eagain alive was an awful thing. If the dreams could have faded into\u003cbr\u003eblankness and all have passed with the passing of the night, how he\u003cbr\u003ecould have thanked whatever gods there be!  Only not to awake--only not\u003cbr\u003eto awake!  But he had awakened.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152644292848,"sku":"2940013516625","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013516625_p0.jpg?v=1763582234","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013516625","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}