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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Frank Darrett Carman, alias Slim, Dandy of the vaudeville stage, passed a reckless night in jail but slicked himself up to day and again told the police …
William had had a reckless night too.
the tired men stretched themselves upon their arms in a wheat field, and sank into the deep and reckless sleep of the weary
soldier. There was rest for the men …
Not completely sure how you slick yourself up to day, but anyway. …
Apparently the reckless sleep of the last quote is a deep and heedless sleep, paying no attention to possible danger. If so, it is a kind of opposite to restless sleep.
In the other two examples the meaning is probably more like restless = unrestful. Does reckless mean ‘energetic, unquiet, (violently) thrashing around’? Or what?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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