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Reading II Read the text below, then choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for questions 1–5. Put a in the correct box. The first one (0) has been done for you. 24 Quite a number of artists, writers and scientists have reported that dreams have been important to them in their work. Their dreams have helped them to create something new or inspired an original work of art. Goethe, apparently, kept a notebook and pencil by his bedside; he would wake up in the middle of the night with a completely new poem in his head; he would then write it down immediately, for if he didn’t, he would have forgotten it by the morning. Goethe was not the only poet to be inspired by dreams. Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that his famous poem “Kubla Khan, Or a Vision in a Dream” was inspired by a dream he had while under the influence of opium. One of the most famous images of 19 th century literature, the Frankenstein monster, was also the product of a dream. Mary Shelley, wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, had a terrifying nightmare after an evening spent with her husband and Lord Byron talking about ghosts. Awaking from her nightmare she said to herself, “I have found it. What terrified me will terrify others, and I need only describe the spectre which haunted my midnight pillow.” Dreams have also been the inspiration for music. The Italian composer Tartini had a dream in which, like Faust, he sold his soul to the Devil. In his dream, the Devil took his violin and began to play it. To Tartini’s astonishment, the Devil produced the most beautiful sonata that he had ever heard. Awaking from his dream he seized his violin and tried to play the piece he had just heard. It was impossible; but the piece he then composed, the “Devil’s Sonata”, was the best he ever wrote. Dreams have even been known to help scientists. The German chemist F. A. Kekulé, who discovered the molecular structure of benzene, said that it was revealed to him in a dream: the atoms were dancing before his eyes in the form of long chains; everything was moving in a snake-like and twisting manner. Suddenly one of the snakes got hold of its own tail and the complete structure was twisting in front of his eyes. Kekulé awoke “as if struck by lightning.” Reporting on this experience he advised other scientists: “Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then we may perhaps find the truth.” Creative dreams 126 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv