'If it annihilates your ladyship to roam over these yawning spaces just once, think how it must annihilate me to be, as it were, in constant suspension amid them night after night'.
If our dreams, night after night, were as coherent one with another as our days, we should hardly know whether to believe the dreams or the waking life.
Understandably, this performance style caused a lot of friction, and as a result, the jeans he wore on stage night after night developed holes and tears.