OLD RIP VAN WINKLE SECRETS

In Roger Zelazny's science-fantasy sequence The Chronicles of Amber, protagonist Corwyn encounters drinking and revelry within an underground lair with otherworldly people that attempt to entice him into slumber; he knows this can be a hundreds of years-of-slumber lure and resists; the passage is similar in theme to each "Rip Van Winkle" and partic