All the way down through this minor economic chain, people lost money, their marvellous dreams disconnected from hopes of success.
Standing at the lathe as Mr Sillitoe had stood, they dreamed of "marvellous things".And they would not kowtow to anyone, whether rate-checker, foreman, boss or government.
Such is the nature of fairy tales: they make us want to live in our imaginations — and how marvellous it had been to dream that a nice old lady wanted to make tea for me and whisper her secrets.
The logic appeals like that of a dream that's both marvellous and frightening.
That was when he went to bed after a day's excited contemplation in which he discovered the "foundations of a marvellous science," and had a series of vivid dreams that changed his life.
Victorian dreams of The End are, however, febrile fantasies, marvellous and spectacular, but not actually revealing anything straightforward about the increasing wealth and modernity of their age.
But it is made with marvellous clarity and fluency, and Joel and Ethan Coen attain a comic simplicity that other film-makers can only dream of.
Duffy has the marvellous idea of making Vitalie the real seer in the family: she hears voices and has prophetic dreams.
Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.
