“The past is only partly irrecoverable. The clerisy should accord it at least as much courtesy as they offer to the future.”

— Robertson Davies, book A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

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Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995

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