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Despite somnambulating his way through a phony-baloney paint-by-numbers display of empathy and involvement, the pundits fell for it all over again.

Young men somnambulated toward photographers in board shorts and leis — their face a waxy glow and fake blood dripping from the corners of their mouth.

A device like a ship's intercom receives messages from this realm of the unreal – surely, in surrealist terms, the realm of dreams – while a somnambulating psychoanalyst, a Freud-like wraith, also wafts along.

"I'm a somnambulist, only I somnambulate faster than most people."

I had an uncle that somnambulated, and he used to hide the sheets in an old carriage in the barn.