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[[File:The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Memesters.jpg|thumb|''The Sleep of Reason Produces Memesters'' by Francisco Goya.]]'''''The Sleep of Reason Produces Memesters''''' is a psychographic etching by the Spanish painter, printmaker, and alleged time-traveler Francisco Goya.

Created between 7 February 2021 and 7 February 2021, it is the first of [REDACTED] psychographic etchings making up the suite of satires ''Los Gnostichos''.

Goya imagines himself asleep amidst his time-reversal tools, his reason dulled by [[Extract of Radium]] and bedeviled by creatures that prowl in the [[Carnevale Tenebre]] sideshows.

The artist's nightmare reflected his view of Spanish society, which he portrayed in the ''Gnostichos'' as illogical, corrupt, and ripe for refactoring using travelling-salesman optimization techniques.

The full epigraph for gnosticho No. 1 reads; "Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]]: united with her (reason), she (fantasy) is the mother of the arts and the origin of their [[Mathematics]]."

== In the News ==

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File:Human Flea Circus (meme).jpg|link=Human Flea Circus|The '''[[Human Flea Circus]]''' is Carnevale Tenebre's most popular sideshow attraction.

File:This_Time_with_Alan_Sawflies.jpg|link=This Time with Alan Sawflies|'''[[This Time with Alan Sawflies]]''' is a horror comedy news network.

File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|[[Monster (nonfiction)|Monsters]] are quite capable of producing themselves, says [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]].
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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Carnevale Tenebre]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Human Flea Circus]]
* [[This Time with Alan Sawflies]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Monster (nonfiction)]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Monsters The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]'' @ Wikipedia

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BemLIjm4g&list=PLUvIoX5PwUlKyHVhllQZpppCh-Y2F-91K Francisco de Goya: The Sleep of the Reason FULL MOVIE 2019] @ YouTube

=== Social media ===

* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1629670334466252802 Post] @ Twitter (25 February 2023)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1423359913737310211 Post] @ Twitter (5 August 2021)

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