Rip Van Winkle : hero of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle (1819-20). The story is based on a legend of Catskill Mountains about a man who slept for twenty years.
... cause of narcolepsy is not understood by conventional science, though world literature has several vivid victims of this disorder, from Kumbhakarna, the giant brother of Ravana in the Ramayana, to Rip Van Winkle. While the narcoleptic cannot stay awake, the insomniac cannot fall asleep. Among the commonest reasons for insomnia are anxiety and depression. Physical ailments can also make it difficult ...
... positively, almost objectively, American. The 'bridge' is the single spanning symbolic image that tries, though not altogether successfully, to hold together national myths like Pocahontas and Rip Van Winkle and the visible material realities of American civilisation. Structurally weak though often brilliantly evocative, The Bridge is said to approximate to a "highly sophisticated, highly syncopated ...
... Book One Book One Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Bipin Chandra Pal 6.Aug-15.Oct.1906 Bande Mataram Our Rip Van Winkles 20-August-1906 The development of sounder political ideas and the birth and growth of a new national energy has been so swift and wonderful that it is not surprising to find a number of our older politicians quite left behind... but now, in the next two or three decades. Page 109 We cannot leave the problem for posterity to settle nor shift our proper burdens on to the shoulders of our grandchildren. But our Rip Van Winkles persist in talking and writing as if Partition and Boycott and Sir Bampfylde Fuller had never been. ...
... know also that I shall stir the bile of those good people who are so enamoured of the British Constitution, that they cannot like any one who is not a partisan." A.G. wanted to awaken our Rip van Winkles. "It [an institution] was made for the use and not at all for the worship of man, and it can only lay claim to respect so long as its beneficent action remains not a memory of the past, but ...
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