... we're running from the garden. Mrs. Jansová is with us. It is evening. Someone is pursuing us. We're in a room and I want to quickly close the windows. I shout at the others to run to the next room and close those windows. I am using both hands to remove the rods that are fastened to the windows to keep the wind from blowing them shut, when I see a delicate white hand slide out from the bushes growing right next to the house and hold back the left window sash, preventing my closing it.

Then I run to the other window and shut it easily. From the next room they announce that all the windows are closed.

I breathe a sigh of relief and tell [my sister] Emilie: "This was BEYOND DOUBT the tiny alabaster hand."

(A footnote says "A Little Hand Made out of Alabaster" is one of Boźena Nêmcová's (1820-62) fairy tales.)

SOURCE: Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky (Twisted Spoon Press, 2018), p.54-6; footnote 33, p.224. Primary source Sny, 1925-1940 ("Dreams, 1925-40") posthumously published (1970).
TITLE: Styrsky titled all his dreams "Dream of..."; I shortened to avoid a logjam in D.

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