“This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know.”

—  John Buchan

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Context: This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.

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British politician 1875–1940

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